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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with control flow in a Bash script Post 302771080 by Jrodicon on Tuesday 19th of February 2013 03:09:43 PM
Old 02-19-2013
Help with control flow in a Bash script

In my bash script I want to say "if argument 2 is anything except x, y or z, than echo this" (x y and z being words).

So my script looks like this:

Code:
if [[ $2 != {x,y,z} ]]
then
echo "unrecognized input: $2"
fi

This usually works but than I also want to say "if argument 2 IS x, y, or z, but argument 4 is not one of them, echo 'unrecognized input: $4'". So how to I format this so my script does both. I had this, but whenever argument 2 was x, y or z, and argument 4 wasn't, I still got the "unrecognized input: $2" error message.

Code:
if [[ $2 != {x,y,z} ]]
then
echo "unrecognized input: $2"
elif [[ $2 = {x,y,z} && $4 != {x,y,z} ]]
then
echo "unrecognized input: $4"
fi


Last edited by Jrodicon; 02-19-2013 at 04:24 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 file name 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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