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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Parsing null or empty output Post 303009162 by wisecracker on Saturday 9th of December 2017 05:46:19 PM
Old 12-09-2017
Hi andysensible...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
You can test for numeric instead:
With regular patterns you could use:
Code:
case $lastseen in 
  (*[!0-9]*|"") 
    echo "Serial Number Invalid"
    exit 3
  ;;
esac

An additional note to Scrutinzer's post...

This is the only reply, in the few that have been posted, that is fully POSIX compliant and will work in 'sh' and 'dash' too, thus making it basically portable...

Last edited by wisecracker; 12-09-2017 at 06:52 PM..
 

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ppmtopgm(1)						      General Commands Manual						       ppmtopgm(1)

NAME
ppmtopgm - convert a portable pixmap into a portable graymap SYNOPSIS
ppmtopgm [ppmfile] DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces a portable graymap as output. The output is a "black and white" rendering of the original image, as in a black and white photograph. The quantization formula used is .299 r + .587 g + .114 b. Note that although there is a pgmtoppm program, it is not necessary for simple conversions from pgm to ppm , because any ppm program can read pgm (and pbm ) files automatically. pgmtoppm is for colorizing a pgm file. Also, see ppmtorgb3 for a different way of converting color to gray. And ppmdist generates a grayscale image from a color image, but in a way that makes it easy to differentiate the original colors, not necessarily a way that looks like a black and white photograph. QUOTE
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colors from our sight Red is gray, and yellow white But we decide which is right And which is a quantization error. SEE ALSO
pgmtoppm(1),ppmtorgb3(1),rgb3toppm(1),ppmdist(1),ppm(5),pgm(5) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer. 10 April 2000 ppmtopgm(1)
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