At 8:48 PM -0500 12/18/07, James Pifer wrote: >Need a bit of scripting help. I have a very small script with a case >statement. The object of the case statement is derived from the >dmidecode command to determine the type of machine it is, if possible. >It works fine, but we're finding that a lot of the HP type machines >respond with a model number plus other information. For example, we >might get these two: > >HP Compaq dc7700 30GB6000 >HP Compaq dc7700 60GB6000 > >Those are completely made up, the point being that we want to match on >just "HP Compaq dc7700" and forget the rest. ... case $printername in "HP Compaq dc7700"*) echo "found $printername" ;; esac -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>