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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is it possible to test against a varible within a ranges in a if statement.
ex.
if ];then
echo "not in range"
else
echo "number within range"
fi (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: leemalloy
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
How do I use bash to test if a line begins with a random number of spaces followed by a letter? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: locoroco
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am trying to build a test statement but I can't make it work
I want to rearrange some fields, so if my "$cfg" variable contains a string ending with .log (*.log) I want to move it in another field.
Any help will be much appreciated!
Thank you
Shell:sh
if
then
log="${cfg}"... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: drbiloukos
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to check weather a string is like test* or test* ot *test* in if condition (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: johnjerome
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I'm trying to automate an if statement in my Perl script. The script opens an input file for reading, checks each line in the file for a particular substring, and if it finds the substring, writes it to an output file.
There are approximately 200 different input files. Each has... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Galt
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is the code:
while test 1 -eq 1
do
read a
$a
if test $a = stop
then
break
fi
done
I read a command on every loop an execute it.
I check if the string equals the word stop to end the loop,but it say that I gave too many arguments to test.
For example echo hello.
Now the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Max89
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can you use an if statement after an else?
example
if
then
echo "word"
else
if
then
echo "word" (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: skooly5
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Okay, well this is more or less my first attempt at writing a shell script.
Anyways, here's my code:
cd ${PATH}
if
then
rm ${FILE}
./anotherScript
else
exit 1
fi
exit 1
Anyways, it's a pretty simple script that is supposed to search for the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cbo0485
4 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi! I'm using
echo $string | grep "" -c
to test in a script if a string is a number and it seems to work. But how can i find, for example, if a string is a four figures number ?
Thanks to all! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Kaminski
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hey guys- what is the syntax for a string test to verify that a user has entered a 6 digit numeric?
Thanks for your help in advance!
Todd (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: hedrict
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