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# 1  
Old 02-02-2007
IF statement question
Hi there

We have boxes named server-sybase2, server-oracle1, etc etc

Does any body know how I can construct an if statement to say, if the hostname of the box contains the string "sybase" then do X ie


Code:
if [ `hostname` contains the string "sybase"]
then

X
fi

any help would be greatly appreciated
# 2  
Old 02-02-2007
Code:
if [ `hostname` = "sybase"]
then
X
fi

# 3  
Old 02-02-2007
With ksh:
if [[ $(hostname) = *sybase* ]] ; then
# 4  
Old 02-02-2007
Thanks, but the hostname will contain the word sybase ie

server-sybase16
host-sybase34
server-sybase23


etc
etc

the only one common factor is that it will contain the string sybase

cheers
# 5  
Old 02-02-2007
Thanks perderabo ...my reply got posted after your response

Is there a bourne soulution as i will be using this in a Solaris init script

Cheers
# 6  
Old 02-02-2007
Code:
case `hostname` in 
        *sybase*) ans="yes" ;;
        *) ans="no" ;;
esac
if [ $ans = "yes" ]

# 7  
Old 02-02-2007
if [ `hostname | grep sybase > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?` -eq 0 ]
then
do_sybase_stuff
fi

f [ `hostname | grep oracle > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?` -eq 0 ]
then
do_oracle_stuff
fi

f [ `hostname | egrep "oracle|sybase" > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?` -eq 0 ]
then
do_ommon_oracle-sybase_stuff
fi
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