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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem if statement Post 302909062 by Scrutinizer on Monday 14th of July 2014 07:01:51 AM
Old 07-14-2014
A better way of doing this would be:
Code:
case $var1 in 
  (ib|eb|atm) echo match ;;
  (*) echo no match ;;
esac

Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
[..]
first, tests string comparison operator is not "=" but "==", as SriniShoo has already stated;
Actually, it is a single = . See test: operands
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