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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cannot properly employ "or" operator in an if statement (bash) Post 302444762 by Corona688 on Thursday 12th of August 2010 05:52:43 PM
Old 08-12-2010
What shell are you using? Checking if a string contains a string isn't a single-operator task I think.
[edit] ah, bash.

Code:
function contains # haystack needle
{
        local H="$1"
        local N="$2"
        local C="${#H}"
        H="${H/$N/}"

        [ "${#H}" -lt "${C}" ] && return 0
        return 1
}

contains ASDF G || contains ASDF H || echo "Doesn't contain these things"

contains ASDF A || contains ASDF B || echo "Doesn't contain these things"


Last edited by Corona688; 08-12-2010 at 07:27 PM..
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
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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