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Old 03-26-2007
basics - if condition (contains)
Can any body help me on how to check whether a file contains a required extension or not.

pseudo is:

if (filename contains .jpg || filename contains .gif)
--- do some thing
end if

Example file names:
test1.grm.gtrx.drx.jpg
test.de.mi.jpg
test2.ds.gif
test3.gif

thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 03-26-2007
Somebody suggested in one of the messages and with that, could make it like this:

suffix=${filename##*.}

if [ $suffix = "jpg" || $suffix = "gif" ]; then
-- do something
fi
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Old 03-27-2007
See wildcards with if statement?
 
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