On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:15:24AM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> >
> >[....]
> >
> >if [ "$i" = "082-groff" ] ; then {do something} ; fi.
> >
> >[....]
>
> Yep, I completely agree. The line above, for example, could probably read:
>
> if echo $i | grep -q "groff" ; then ... ; fi
>
> Other suggestions are welcome.
That is, in the general case, broken due to quoting. Try:
if echo "$i" | grep -q groff ; then ... ; fi
(grep -q isn't portable, either, but you may not care.)
In any case, the following is portable and fast. (Forks are expensive
and grep is never a builtin.)
case $i in *groff) ... ;; esac
Sometimes it is nice that the ;; can be omitted if there is only one
case as in:
case $i in *groff)
.
.
.
esac
Cheers,
Seth W. Klein
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