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Old 01-29-2008
I have a variable in my script which gets the value dynamically. It can be a numeric value or a string

If the variable is FILE_COUNT :
Code:
VAR_TEMP=`echo $FILE_COUNT | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' | sed 's/[A-Z]//g'`

if [ x"$FILE_COUNT" != x"$VAR_TEMP" ] ; then
        echo "VARIABLE !!!"
else
        echo "NUMERIC !!!"
fi
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