i'm storing in the variable the value of the variable b only if it has a / somewhere.
It works, but i don't want to print the value. How do i give the value of b to the grep command without the echo?
thanks!
To answer the original question....
It will not "print" the value to the terminal (if that's what you're getting at) - the output of echo is captured and stored in the variable.
I always do validation like this with an if/else construct...
This is a (slightly verbose) piece of code that can be modified for any validation purpose....
Cheers
ZB
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
zegrep
ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)ZGREP(1)