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Old 01-31-2009
test if string contains another string
I have already received one answer a part of my problem and I thought I could move on without help from there but I am failing miserably.

I am using a source control system called mercurial which, from /bin/sh script I can do this:

Code:
requiredText="This file has been modified"
hgLogOutput=`hg log -v -r $HG_NODE`
filePaths="${hgLogOutput#*files: }" filePaths="${filePaths%description:*}"

declare -a Array=($filePaths)
for filePath in $filePaths; do
    requiredText=hg cat $filePath | grep -F $requiredText
done

You may be able to see that my code fails on the:

Code:
requiredText=hg cat $filePath | grep -F $requiredText

I am trying to check if:

Code:
hg cat $filePath

contains the:

Code:
$requiredText

shell programming has to be the most difficult language I can imagine. Any help appreciated; it has taken me a day to write that which I have so far - and even then with help!
Last edited by klogger; 01-31-2009 at 09:18 PM..
# 2  
Old 02-01-2009
I managed to get it going:

Code:
requiredTextResult=`hg cat -r tip $filePath | grep -F "$requiredText"`
if [[ ! $requiredTextResult =~ $requiredText ]]; then
    # do stuff
    exit 1
fi

 
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