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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Verifying sting format in bash Post 83671 by Perderabo on Saturday 17th of September 2005 02:00:44 PM
Old 09-17-2005
Code:
if [[ $something == [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] ]]; then
        echo one file
else
        echo the other file
fi

 

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