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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Linux Shell: how to check a string whether meets some conditions Post 302819961 by franksunnn on Tuesday 11th of June 2013 05:55:40 PM
Old 06-11-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
The english language stating the problem is already longer than your source code, I don't know if it can be made truly short. Smilie But you're right, grep | grep | grep | grep isn't terribly efficient. You could do it in several case statements and use ${#string} to get its length, or pile it all into an awk statement, which isn't terribly efficient itself, but better than five greps, and easier to see what you're doing.

Code:
if echo "$PASS" | awk '/^[_a-zA-Z]/ && /[a-z]/ && /[A-Z]/ && /[0-9]/ && (length($0) > 8) && (length($0) < 16) { X=1 } END { exit(!X) }'
then
        echo "Password is OK"
else
        echo "Password is not OK"
fi

Yes!
You're right!
Thx!
 

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CPANPLUS::Shell(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					CPANPLUS::Shell(3)

NAME
CPANPLUS::Shell - base class for CPANPLUS shells SYNOPSIS
use CPANPLUS::Shell; # load the shell indicated by your # config -- defaults to # CPANPLUS::Shell::Default use CPANPLUS::Shell qw[Classic] # load CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic; my $ui = CPANPLUS::Shell->new(); my $name = $ui->which; # Find out what shell you loaded $ui->shell; # run the ui shell DESCRIPTION
This module is the generic loading (and base class) for all "CPANPLUS" shells. Through this module you can load any installed "CPANPLUS" shell. Just about all the functionality is provided by the shell that you have loaded, and not by this class (which merely functions as a generic loading class), so please consult the documentation of your shell of choice. BUG REPORTS
Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>. AUTHOR
This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. COPYRIGHT
The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic, cpanp perl v5.16.3 2013-05-20 CPANPLUS::Shell(3)
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