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10-03-2008
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to search for a particular character in a word
Hi
I would like to accept in a string from user like username/pwd@dbname suppose the user does not input @ then i should throw an error that @ symbol missing . How to achieve this Thanks in advance Suresh 
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#2
10-03-2008
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you can use this
Code:
echo "enter username and password" read var echo "$var"|grep "@" >> /dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ];then echo "no \"@\" found";else echo "\"@\" found";fi
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10-04-2008
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Quote:
Code:
#!/bin/bash read -p "Enter username and password: " var if [[ $var =~ "@" ]] then echo 'found @' else echo 'no @ found' fi
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10-04-2008
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the use of regular expression in bash =~ is also not necessary
Code:
case $input in *@*)
echo "there"
echo "do something here"
;;
esac
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#5
10-06-2008
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Thanks guys for
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10-06-2008
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Thanks guys for ur replies
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10-07-2008
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Sorry for asking late actually i need to check for / also apart from @
I am using echo "$var"|grep "@" >> /dev/null as this worked for me if i do like echo "$3"|grep "\/*@" >> /dev/null i am not getting desired result is there another way Thanks in advance
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