Relative to this thread as you have used 'case....esac':
What is the reasoning behind ;;, why 2 semicolons instead of 1, after each command inside a 'case' statement?
I have always wondered as I can't find any mention of it.
A question to help our newbie friend to understand too.
And from the manual, (man bash):
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Okay, well this is more or less my first attempt at writing a shell script.
Anyways, here's my code:
cd ${PATH}
if
then
rm ${FILE}
./anotherScript
else
exit 1
fi
exit 1
Anyways, it's a pretty simple script that is supposed to search for the... (4 Replies)
Hello, i have a script which checks if the user entered 8 numeric characters in the form of YYYYMMDD (birth date). If the user entered any non numeric characters, an error will be displayed:
# Check to see if the 8 characters are all numbers
# If not show error essage
# And prompt user... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to use grep inside a test statement, but I am getting an error message.
Two variables
testvarNum=5
testvarNonNum=x
echo $testvarNum | grep *
The result of this is as follows:
5
However, when I try the following (i.e. to test if the variable is numeric or non-numeric):... (3 Replies)
This is the code:
while test 1 -eq 1
do
read a
$a
if test $a = stop
then
break
fi
done
I read a command on every loop an execute it.
I check if the string equals the word stop to end the loop,but it say that I gave too many arguments to test.
For example echo hello.
Now the... (1 Reply)
Hello ...again.
I am stuck on this part, I have a loop with processes an operations file.
and calls different functions depending on what is in loop, which processes a database file...
#so far my add function works as intended
add()
{
...blah blah;
}
# delete is kinda working... (13 Replies)
Hello,
I have a problem. I will search files on fileextentions (suffix). It can with the command find, but I will do it with the commands grep and/or test. When i start the script I will see all files with that extention (suffix).
Can anyone help me, please?
Thanks!
Regards,
Arjan... (4 Replies)
Hi all. I am trying to compare and filter two files. I have a bigfile.txt of names and ids and a smallfile.txt of ids only. What I am trying to do is use a while read loop to read the ids in the bigfile and then echo the name and id only if the id exists in the small file. Basically, I'm trying to... (5 Replies)
read a
if test grep EOF $a
then echo yes file
else
echo no
fi (1 Reply)
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fc-pattern
FC-PATTERN(1)FC-PATTERN(1)NAME
fc-pattern - parse and show pattern
SYNOPSIS
fc-pattern [ -cdVh ] [ --config ] [ --default ] [ -f format | --format format ] [ --version ] [ --help ]
[ pattern [ element ... ] ]
DESCRIPTION
fc-pattern parses pattern (empty pattern by default) and shows the parsed result. If --config is given, config substitution is performed
on the pattern before being displayed. If --default is given, default substitution is performed on the pattern before being displayed.
If any elements are specified, only those are printed.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below.
-c --config
Perform config substitution on pattern.
-d --default
Perform default substitution on pattern.
-f --format format
Format output according to the format specifier format.
-V --version
Show version of the program and exit.
-h --help
Show summary of options.
pattern
Parses and displays pattern (uses empty pattern by default).
element
If set, the element property is displayed for parsed pattern.
SEE ALSO FcNameParse(3)FcConfigSubstitute(3)FcDefaultSubstitute(3)FcPatternPrint(3)FcPatternFormat(3)fc-cat(1)fc-cache(1)fc-list(1) fc-
match(1)fc-query(1)fc-scan(1)
The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.
AUTHOR
This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>.
16 April 2012 FC-PATTERN(1)