The if command simply evaluates another command, and examines its exit code to decide whether to take the then branch or the else branch (if present). You can use the expr command to match a string against a regular expression, or echo | grep. I would recommend case for this, though, even if it actually uses glob expressions, not true regular expressions.
Some shells also have built-in regex operators with the [[ conditional ]] syntax.
All of these are more or less functionally equivalent. (They will not reject an empty string as not a number; implementing that is left as an exercise.)
Last edited by era; 05-22-2008 at 07:23 AM..
Reason: Will accept empty string as well as numbers, actually
hello,
I use AIX with ISM PILOT, I want to match something with a varible like this :
$variable = 10 #this variable is the number of the job
"$variable STARTED" # the pattern
how can use this variable to match it with the word STARTED
Tanks (0 Replies)
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