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Old 10-08-2008
ankimo ankimo is offline
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testing for regex at command line
hi unixers,

i wonder if someone can tell me how i can check for a regex at the command line?


Code:
if any parameter begins with a special character then
   do this
else
   do that
thanks for your help.