IF statement question

hcclnoodles · #1 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

Hi there

We have boxes named server-sybase2, server-oracle1, etc etc

Does any body know how I can construct an if statement to say, if the hostname of the box contains the string "sybase" then do X ie

Code:

if [ `hostname` contains the string "sybase"]
then

X
fi

any help would be greatly appreciated

anbu23 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

Code:

if [ `hostname` = "sybase"]
then
X
fi

Perderabo · #3 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

With ksh:
if [[ $(hostname) = *sybase* ]] ; then

hcclnoodles · #4 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

Thanks, but the hostname will contain the word sybase ie

server-sybase16
host-sybase34
server-sybase23

etc
etc

the only one common factor is that it will contain the string sybase

cheers

hcclnoodles · #5 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

Thanks perderabo ...my reply got posted after your response

Is there a bourne soulution as i will be using this in a Solaris init script

Cheers

Perderabo · #6 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

Code:

case `hostname` in 
        *sybase*) ans="yes" ;;
        *) ans="no" ;;
esac
if [ $ans = "yes" ]

sb008 · #7 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

if [ `hostname | grep sybase > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?` -eq 0 ]
then
do_sybase_stuff
fi

f [ `hostname | grep oracle > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?` -eq 0 ]
then
do_oracle_stuff
fi

f [ `hostname | egrep "oracle|sybase" > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?` -eq 0 ]
then
do_ommon_oracle-sybase_stuff
fi

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