03-26-2010
Case insensitive comparison of strings
Hi All,
In one shell script I have
In variable "i" I am getting a full path of a file. Now I want to compare something like
-- upper(*Nav*))
I dont want to do like below because in each CASE statement I doing so many operations.
Quote:
case "$i" in
*Nav*)
;;
*NAV*)
Please guide me.
Thanks in advance
Vishalaksha
Last edited by vishalaksha; 03-26-2010 at 01:37 AM..
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NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
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process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
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debug shell scripts
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