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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting what's wrong with my match pattern Post 302692063 by pamu on Monday 27th of August 2012 03:34:48 AM
Old 08-27-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by elixir_sinari
Code:
a=/boot/vmlinuz*
[[ $a != "/boot/vmlinuz*" && -f $a ]] && echo OK

Hi elixir_sinari,

I think your first/previous code is correct...

Code:
a=/boot/vmlinuz*
echo $a
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64
[[ $a == /boot/vmlinuz* ]] && echo OK
OK

 

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READLINK(3)								 1							       READLINK(3)

readlink - Returns the target of a symbolic link

SYNOPSIS
string readlink (string $path) DESCRIPTION
readlink(3) does the same as the readlink C function. PARAMETERS
o $path - The symbolic link path. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | This function is now available on Windows plat- | | | forms (Vista, Server 2008 or greater). | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ RETURN VALUES
Returns the contents of the symbolic link path or FALSE on error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 readlink(3) example <?php // output e.g. /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-xfs echo readlink('/vmlinuz'); ?> SEE ALSO
is_link(3), symlink(3), linkinfo(3). PHP Documentation Group READLINK(3)
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