On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:47:59PM -0800, John H Darrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Try this:
| if [ ! -z "${1##v[0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9]}" ]
[...]
Remebering that this is not portable, and the day you move to a machine
whose /bin/sh is not bash your script will break. The whole world isn't
linux, you know :-)
If you want to write portable shell, which will stand you in good stead in
many environments, use a case statement for this.
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. - Mae West
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