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Re: [TCLUG:7564] more bash
On 13 Aug, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
> So, if you get info back from a command, and want to string compare the
> first 3 characters, don't tell me I have to go do this in Perl or
> something, do you?
>
> day=`date`
> if [ day = "Fri *" ]; then
Try this:
day=`date`
case "$day" in
Fri*) command;;
Sat*) command;;
esac
Note the two ;'s, you need them for the end of each match.
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Jon Schewe
http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
schewe@tcfreenet.org
- References:
- more bash
- From: Phil Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>