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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Comparing Special characters (i.e. -,\,/) in an if statment Post 302260610 by vbe on Friday 21st of November 2008 07:30:18 AM
Old 11-21-2008
corrected your code but maybe I had too much "beaujolais nouveau" just now...

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
set -x
V_DATE='2008-08-30'
echo $V_DATE
V_DATE_DASH1=$(echo $V_DATE | cut -c 5)
echo 'INFO V_DATE_DASH1: ' $V_DATE_DASH1
V_DASH="-"
echo 'INFO V_DASH:'$V_DASH
read pp
echo $V_DATE_DASH1 = $V_DASH
read pp
if [ "$V_DATE_DASH1" = "$V_DASH" ]
   then echo "INFO V_DATE_DASH1 is OK"
else echo "ERROR V_DATE_DASH1 not a "-" "
   usage  # Im waiting to see...
fi

You can tell me off, I really had too much...

Last edited by vbe; 11-21-2008 at 09:25 AM..
 

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echo(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    echo(3XCURSES)

NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int echo(void); int noecho(void); DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially, curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft- ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR. ERRORS
No errors are defined. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)
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