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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Validating $1 and $2 before using Post 40535 by butterfm on Wednesday 17th of September 2003 01:01:31 PM
Old 09-17-2003
Hi nhatch,

The syntax errors are caused by the -ne being used with a value in quotes.

-ne shoudl be used with numbers.
If you are comping strings use !=

e.g.

if [ $1 != "07[0-9]\{9,9\}" ]

Hope this helps,

Matt.
 

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