[wplug] Bash conditional help

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 2 20:19:02 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2 May 2008 15:40:31 -0400
"Moshe Hyzon" <mokatz at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the interest of "There's more than ONE way to do it!"....
> 
> 
> 
> case "$myvar" in
>   *apple*)
>     echo "We've got an apple!"
>     ;;
>   *)
>     echo "No apple here."
>     ;;
> esac
> 

And more.  :)

Actually, I don't use bash, but the following works in ksh and sh:

myvar="orange orange apple grape"

if echo $myvar | grep apple
 then echo "got an apple"
fi


-- 
Tom Rhodes


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