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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting string test in IF statement Post 302400597 by djehresmann on Wednesday 3rd of March 2010 04:24:44 PM
Old 03-03-2010
string test in IF statement

How do I test multiple words in a string test like below:

Code:
if [[ $TBS = (SYSTEM|SYSAUX|USERS|TOOLS) ]]
then
   print "You entered $TBS name.\n"
else
   print "You entered an incorrect response.\n"
fi


This test does not work. I have tried different syntax versions. How does this work? And is there a better way to do it?

thanks.

Last edited by vgersh99; 03-03-2010 at 05:34 PM..
 

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DH_AUTO_TEST(1) 						     Debhelper							   DH_AUTO_TEST(1)

NAME
dh_auto_test - automatically runs a package's test suites SYNOPSIS
dh_auto_test [buildsystemoptions] [debhelperoptions] [--params] DESCRIPTION
dh_auto_test is a debhelper program that tries to automatically run a package's test suite. It does so by running the appropriate command for the build system it detects the package uses. For example, if there's a Makefile and it contains a test or check target, then this is done by running make (or MAKE, if the environment variable is set). If the test suite fails, the command will exit nonzero. If there's no test suite, it will exit zero without doing anything. This is intended to work for about 90% of packages with a test suite. If it doesn't work, you're encouraged to skip using dh_auto_test at all, and just run the test suite manually. OPTIONS
See "BUILD SYSTEM OPTIONS" in debhelper(7) for a list of common build system selection and control options. -- params Pass params to the program that is run, after the parameters that dh_auto_test usually passes. NOTES
If the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable contains nocheck, no tests will be performed. SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 11.1.6ubuntu2 2018-05-10 DH_AUTO_TEST(1)
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