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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unix Shell basic loop massive n00b Post 302552109 by Corona688 on Thursday 1st of September 2011 03:54:13 PM
Old 09-01-2011
Check that the length is three. [ "${#STR}" -eq 3 ]

Check that it's all digits. [ -z "${STR/[0-9]*/}" ]

Check that it's not in the file. ! grep $ID user.db #??? not perfect but best I can do without knowing what user.db looks like

So

Code:
STR=""
until [ "${#STR}" -eq 3 ] && [ -z "${STR/[0-9]*/}" ] && ! grep "$STR" user.db > /dev/null
do
         read STR
done

 

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nunit-console(1)					      General Commands Manual						  nunit-console(1)

NAME

       nunit-console - Test-based front-end to NUnit

SYNOPSIS

       nunit-console [assemblies] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       nunit-console  is a simple but powerful front-end to NUnit, a testing framework for .NET. It will run all or some tests from the assemblies
       specified as arguments and display the results.

	Results can be written in either XML or plain text.

OPTIONS

       /fixture=STR
	      Run specified fixture

       /config=STR
	      Project configuration to load

       /xml=STR
	      Write test result output data to specified file

       /transform=STR
	      Name of transformation file to run on XML output file.

       /xmlConsole
	      Print XML to the console.

       /output=STR
	      File to receive regular test output

       /err=STR
	      File to reveive test error output

       /labels
	      Label each test in output.

       /include=STR
	      Test categories to include (may contain wildcards)

       /exclude=STR
	      Test categories to exclude (may contain wildcards)

       /noshadow
	      Disable shadow copy

       /thread
	      Run tests on a seperate thread.

       /wait  Wait for input before closing window.

       /nologo
	      Do no show credits at startup.

       /help  Show list of available arguments.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/nunit/html

AUTHOR


	This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> for
	the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								    1 June 2005 						  nunit-console(1)
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