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# 8  
Old 06-24-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver Here is a sample using the commands

files in my directory
Code:
> ls
./  ../  ABCDEF.txt  AbCdEf.txt  AbcdEf.dat  abcdeF.txt  match_names*  text_review

the program/script
Code:
> cat match_names 
#! /bin/bash

ls *.txt >text_review

while read zf
   do
   file2=$(echo "$zf" | tr [A-Z] [a-z])
   if [ "$file2" = "abcdef.txt" ]
      then 
      cat "$zf" 
   fi
done <text_review

execute the program.script
Code:
> match_names 
You are inside ABCDEF.txt file
You are inside AbCdEf.txt file... yes...
You are inside abcdeF.txt  .. congrats

# 9  
Old 06-25-2008
everybody thankyou for your help. There is nothing wrong with the nested if statements just wondered if there was a more neat way.

Following on from chachabronsons question i do not understand the above, although i am intrigued as to how it would work.
The above example does not make sense for the following:


FILEA = TestFile1.txt (how would this be declared so the file could be in any case upper, lower or mixture)

FILEB = TestFile2.txt (how would this be declared so the file could be in any case upper, lower or mixture)

if [ ! -f $FILEA ]
then
if [ ! -f $FILEB ]
then
echo "Neither file exists"
exit
else
echo "File A does not exist but file B does"
exit
fi
else
if [ ! -f $FILEB ]
then
echo "File A exists but file B does not"
exit
fi
fi

Therefore if both files present run process
# 10  
Old 06-25-2008
Hi.

Here is an alternate solution that uses the option in grep to ignore case distinctions:
Code:
#!/bin/bash -

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate filter ignoring case.

echo
echo "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version =o $(_eat $0 $1) grep
echo

FILES="ABCDEF.txt AbCdEf.txt AbcdEf.dat abcdeF.txt"
rm -f $FILES

touch $FILES
echo " Files currently extant:"
ls

echo
echo " Result of filtering, ignoring case:"
ls -1 |
grep -i abcdef.txt

exit 0

Producing:
Code:
% ./s1

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
Linux 2.6.11-x1
GNU bash 2.05b.0
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1

 Files currently extant:
ABCDEF.txt  AbCdEf.txt  AbcdEf.dat  abcdeF.txt  readme.txt  s1

 Result of filtering, ignoring case:
ABCDEF.txt
AbCdEf.txt
abcdeF.txt

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
# 11  
Old 06-25-2008
You could try
Code:
FILEA='[Tt][Ee][Ss][Tt][Ff][Ii][Ll][Ee]1.[Tt][Xx][Tt]' 

if [ ! -f $FILEA ]
then
        echo file does not exists
else
        echo file exists
fi

but there may be issues if multiple files are matched.
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