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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Check given string is number in shell script? Post 302324667 by fpmurphy on Thursday 11th of June 2009 10:36:39 AM
Old 06-11-2009
You can also do such checks entirely within your shell script. The following works for ksh93 and also for bash if you enable extglob.
Code:
# uncomment if using bash
# shopt -s extglob

REQUEST_ID="123456"

case $REQUEST_ID in
   ( +([0-9]) )   echo "REQUEST_ID is all numbers" ;;
             *)   echo "REQUEST_ID is not all numbers" ;;
esac

 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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