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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check if parameter passes in contains certain string Post 62233 by jim mcnamara on Monday 14th of February 2005 11:07:25 AM
Old 02-14-2005
The shell also supports different kinds of string operators. The most nearly universal one is expr - in this case expr index

Try man expr.
Code:
let is_there=0
check ()
{
  if [ $is_there -gt 0 ] ; then
     echo "$str has a WA in it"
  else
     echo "$str has no WA in it"
  fi     	
}

str="/someplace/WA/01/"
is_there=`expr index $str "WA"`
check;

Test whether expr return zero or a non-zero result.
 

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NAME
griffith - film collection manager SYNOPSIS
griffith DESCRIPTION
Griffith is a film collection manager. Adding items to the movie collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the related information from the Web. OPTIONS
-h --help Show usage information. -D --debug Run in debug mode. -C --clean find and delete orphan files in posters directory. --check-dep check dependencies - if all needed Python modules are installed, it prints nothting. --sqlecho Prints all SQL queries to standard output. --home DIR Set Griffith's home directory. Use this option if you want to change the default ~/.griffith Printing movie list: -c <expr> --cast=<expr> cast field must contain <expr> -d <expr> --director=<expr> director field must contain <expr> -o <expr> --original_title=<expr> original title field must contain <expr> -t <expr> --title=<expr> title field must contain <expr> -y <number> --year=<number> movie must be released in year <number> -s <columns> --sort=<columns> set sort columns to <columns>. Example: --sort=o_title,number,director SEE ALSO
Homepage: <http://www.griffith.cc/> BUGS
If you want to help or report any bugs founded please visit homepage <http://www.griffith.cc/> or <https://bugs.launchpad.net/griffith> AUTHORS
Griffith was written by Vasco Nunes and Piotr OA1/4arowski. See the AUTHORS and THANKS files for a list of other contributors. Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Vasco Nunes <vasco.m.nunes@gmail.com>, Piotr OA1/4arowski <ozarow+griffith@gmail.com>, This man page was written by Piotr Ozarowski Dec 20, 2006 griffith(1)
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