Ahh. I had seen an example in the o'reilly text 'learning the bash shell' that
made it appear variable substitution in case was valid, but considering
they were using $PWD as the variable, indeed it would be the entire string.
I'll try the loop in the morning. It would be nice if case DID work that way
though.
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Re: I am
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Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU>
The problem is that bash takes cooked_list as a single token in the case
statement. It matches the entire list of systems, and not each member of the
list. I don't know of any way around this. You will probably need to do
another for loop on raw_list and check for a match in the loop.
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James Melin
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:53 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: I am missing something basic with bash scripting.
I am trying to get away from hard coded server names in a script using case for
valid name check
This works but is not good because as soon as you add a new server to the NFS
mountpoint list the script this is from has to be changed.
case $target_system in
abinodji | calhoun | itasca | nokomis | pepin | phalen | vadnais | bemidji |
millpond | mudlake | terrapin | hadley | hyland ) parm_1="valid";;
esac
So I tried several variants of this:
space=" "
delim=" | "
raw_list=`ls /clamscan/servers` #read list of mountpoints
cooked_list=$(echo $raw_list | sed -e "s:$space:$delim:g") #replace space with
case-happy delimiters
echo "Raw list = "$raw_list
echo "cooked list = "$cooked_list
case $target_system in
$cooked_list ) parm_1="valid" ;;
esac
But even though the display of 'cooked_list' seems to be what I want it to be,
this never returns a match.
Anyone see where I missed the turnip truck on this?
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