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# 15  
Old 07-03-2012
Would you change your grep to fgrep and try?
# 16  
Old 07-03-2012
Note: with fgrep you cannot use the $-sign which is required for exact matching..
# 17  
Old 07-04-2012
Apologies for the delayed reply...

Scrutinizer - what am I missing here:

-- snip --

Code:
subnet ()
{

clear
        while true
        do
                echo "\n "
                echo "Please enter the subnet to be changed: \c"
                read sub
                grep "${sub//./\\.}$"
                echo $?
                if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]
                then
                        print "Arrived"
                        break;
                else
                        echo "\n\n\tNot a valid subnet - please try again.";
                        echo $?
                fi
        done
}

--snip--

Code:
Please enter the subnet to be changed: 111.222.333.0
./generate-batchlist[9]: "${sub//./\\.}$": bad substitution

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-04-2012 at 08:20 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 18  
Old 07-04-2012
You have not specified the file after the grep statement...
But there is another problem here, your shell does not understand that kind of substitution. You would need to use /usr/dt/bin/dtksh (ksh93) or bash if available.
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# 19  
Old 07-04-2012
Yup - I think changing to bash is probably the best option here, cause it's been tested in bash and it works...

I'll just need to change all my "print" commands to "echo"

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