Count number of digits in a word - Shell Programming and Scripting

./hari.sh · #3 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009

Let me tell you what exactly I want

I have a word having 8 chrs, something like abc12345 or ab123456

Now, if last five chrs are digits then I wanna do some other operation

I used the code

Code:


if [ `echo $WORD | cut -c 4-8  | grep -oE [[:digit:]] | wc -l` -eq 5 ]
then
do this...

bash command line it gives the output, but in script it gives "0" always"