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if [ $1 -eq -* ]
then
if [ $1 = -t ]
then
echo "fst argument is $1 "
else
if [ $1 = -r ]
then
"fst argument is $1"
fi
fi
fi





Can anyone tell me. My requirement is tht pass a string ..
Check whether it contains "-". If yes then check if it contains -r .If -r then put messge else if -t then put some message.

For this kind of script, you might use "case" or "optargs" instead of lots of if statements. There is various documentation and examples for it on the www. "optargs" is especially for parsing command line parameters.

And please use the code tags because that makes code much more readable.