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From: Gary Kline <kline@magnesium.net>
To: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@datapipe.com>
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Subject: Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:34:08PM -0600, Paul Procacci wrote:
> Is this what you mean?
> 
> ---------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> STRING="mystring.gz"
> 
> if [ ".gz" = "`echo \"$STRING\" | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'`" ]; then
>  echo test;
> fi
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> ~Paul
> 

	Sorry.  You get the credit for the predicate expression; Jon had the 
	simpler 
	(and more readable:) one.    But yours is warm+fuzzy in it's cleverness
	:-)

	gary



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