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Old 04-10-2007
using regular expression an shell script!!
I want to check if the first argument of my shell script starts with a specifiec string?

Any Idea??

Thank u
# 2  
Old 04-10-2007
using regular expression in shell script!!
I want to check if the first argument of my shell script starts with a specifiec string?

Any Idea??

Thank u
# 3  
Old 04-10-2007
Check the case statement (with globbing, not RE):

Code:
...
case $1 in
  string*) OK ... ;;
        *) KO ... ;;
esac

Last edited by radoulov; 04-10-2007 at 12:20 PM..
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Old 04-10-2007
echo $1 | awk '/^my_string/ { print "param1 starting with m";}
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