Search Results

In nawk you can use the tolower function to do regex matching (I just saw this in another thread a minute ago):


Equivalent to grep -i abc (I hope):

nawk '
tolower($0) ~ /abc/ {print }
'

>cat a.sh
echo Hello, this is a.sh running
echo Here is a.sh writing to stderr >&2

>a.sh
Hello, this is a.sh running
Here is a.sh writing to stderr

>a.sh 2>err
Hello, this is a.sh running...

While case...esac is fine, if you have your heart set on using 'expr' you can use expr this way:

expr $parameter : ".*$search" >/dev/null && echo Found!!!

In this form, expr returns the # of...