Hello James,
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:17:21 -0500 James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks to all that replied. My final solution is if/then/else's. Not as
> efficient as a case but does the job, and I can look for the substrings
> that I need using:
>
> if echo "$SYSTEMNAME" | grep -q "HP Compaq dc7700"
> then
> blah blah blah
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
Many ways to do it, bash also allows substring matching: ${FOO:n[m]}
For instance:
LINE=$(whatever command gives your chars to filter out)
MATCH="HP Compaq dc7700"
if [ "${LINE:0:${#MATCH}}" == "$MATCH" ]
then
..
fi
Regards,
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wwp
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