John Summerfield: >> the example's fine, but read again what he's looking at:-) Tony Nelson: > Yes, so? Your "real one" will be found also. If you think what I said > won't work, give a counterexample. Perhaps you don't want to nest two case > statements, one for "Produce Name:" and the other for the specific > products? It's not really needed, as the match strings could all start > with "Product Name:"*. > > case $line in > "Product Name:"*) > case $line in > *"HP Compaq dc7700"*) echo "found $printername" ;; > esac ;; > esac I read John's comment of the "example's fine," as saying that the function of what the code would do was fine. But there being a bit of a humorous dig about the OP's not looking for the name of a *printer*. i.e. He expected you would have written something more like "found $boardtype". -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
