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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use shell var for pattern string at KSH Post 302351629 by tkang007 on Wednesday 9th of September 2009 06:39:42 AM
Old 09-09-2009
How to use shell var for pattern string at KSH
Hi there, In the following test, how to use shell var for pattern, regular expression. I need to accept pattern at argument, use it to pattern matching at shell script.

Test:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
# name t.sh
exp="a@(a|b)"
touch aa ab ac
echo "\nTest without variable"
echo "---------------------"
ls -1 a@(a|b)
echo "\nTest with with variable(exp=$exp)"
echo "----------------------"
ls -1 $exp
######################################
# test 
######################################
# chmod 775 t.sh
# t.sh 
######################################
# test output
######################################
# Test without variable
# ---------------------
# aa
# ab
#
# Test with with variable(exp=a@(a|b))
# ----------------------
# a@(a|b) not found     # <-- probelm
######################################

Last edited by Franklin52; 09-09-2009 at 08:21 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
 

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