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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing multiple values from a variable Post 302814495 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 29th of May 2013 02:02:28 PM
Old 05-29-2013
Your requirements are extremely ambiguous. If I take them literally, I interpret it to mean that if I have files named attest, bestest, and test.c (or, in fact, one or more files with names containing the string "test" even if none of them are actually named "test"); you want to print test. And, if there are no filenames in the current directory that contain the string "test", you don't want to print anything. If that is what you want, the following will do that if you're using a recent bash or a Korn shell newer than 1988:
Code:
list=( *test* )
if [ ${#list[@]} -gt 1 ] || [ "${list[0]}" != "*test*" ]
then    echo test
fi

If that isn't what you want. Please clearly state what you are trying to do.
 

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NAME

       purity-ng - general purpose purity testing software

SYNOPSIS

       purity-ng [OPTION]...  list|FILE|TESTNAME

DESCRIPTION

       Purity  is  an  interactive purity test program with a simple, user interface and datafile format.  For each test, questions are printed to
       the your terminal, and you are prompted for an answer to the current question.  At a prompt, these are your choices:

	      y      Answer "yes" to the question.
	      n      Answer "no" to the question.
	      b      Backup  one  question, if you answered it incorrectly, or someone is watching you take the test, and you don't (or do) want to admit a different answer.
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	      show the help message and exit

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