Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:06:11 +0800 From: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: * wildcard in.sh script Message-ID: <4C174283.9090903@comclark.com> In-Reply-To: <4C173909.1050101@comclark.com> References: <4C173909.1050101@comclark.com>
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Aiza wrote:
> I have a directory with files in it. The first 3 letters of the file
> names is the group prefix. I'm trying to write a script to accept the 3
> letter of the group followed by a * to mean its a prefix lookup. But
> when I run it I get a message "NO match" that is not issued by the
> script. Its like * is not allowed as input.
>
> Looking for sample .sh code for handling this standard type of lookup or
> some online tutorial that has sample code for bourne shell programming.
>
Here is the code
prefix_name1=$1
prefix_name2=`echo -n "${prefix_name1}" | sed 's/*.*$//'`
echo "prefix_name1 = ${prefix_name1}"
echo "prefix_name2 = ${prefix_name2}"
if [ ${prefix_name1} -nq ${prefix_name2} ]; then
echo "prefix_name2 = ${prefix_name2}"
fi
exerr "hard stop"
Here is the test and out put
# >admin cell*
admin: No match.
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