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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting validate input from user for file name Post 80769 by jerardfjay on Thursday 11th of August 2005 11:53:26 AM
Old 08-11-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by aigles
The following function makes the work :
Code:
isValidFileName ()
{
   echo "$1" | egrep -q '^[[:alnum:]]+$'
}

filename=xxxx
if isValidFileName "$filename"
then echo "Valid"
else echo "Invalid !!"
fi


Jean-Pierre.
Jean-Pierre. Thanks for your quick response.
This code works fine except when I enter "*" for the file name, then the shell expands all of the current files within my current folder where I have the shell script running and returns that the name of the file is valid, which we know is not true. How can I overcome this? Thanks. Jerardfjay

Sorry. This code works fine. There were other checks which were causing the error and not this piece of code. Thank you.
Last edited by jerardfjay; 08-11-2005 at 12:56 PM.. Reason: Incorrect response
 

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