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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting wildcards with if statement? Post 302109470 by dennis.jacob on Tuesday 6th of March 2007 04:32:45 AM
Old 03-06-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by murtaza
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Thanks for reply. When I try to run above code then it displays the following syntax error. I tried many times to correct the syntax error but could not. Furthermore I want to tell u that i am using the bash shell.
Thanks in advance

ifwildcard: line 5: syntax error in conditional expression: unexpected token `('
ifwildcard: line 5: syntax error near `?(+'
ifwildcard: line 5: ` if [[ $val = ?(+|-)+([0-9]) ]] ; then'

It works fine for me!!!!!
Checked in bash and ksh
 

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