01-06-2009
What shell are you using? Some support globbing or regular expressions for things like this.
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Hi,
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I checked all the previous threads related to this and tried this.
My input is all numbers or decimals greater than zero everytime.
I want to check the same in the korn shell script.
Just validate the string to be numeric.
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Hello,
I have a file of strings a below:-
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thanks to suggest ASAP
Regards,
Jasi
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