Many thanks to all that helped.
Nestor Ruiz
Hugh Pritchard
Gene Vannostern
Kurt Carlson
Mark Allen
Angel Martinez
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Here's my summarized post.
I'm trying to compare a string to which has the contents of a full path: ie
ie. current_tree which would have something like
/usr/users/mktowns/script/
and match it with /usr/users/mktowns.
something like ...
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Hugh Pritchard had the eaisest solution for me. (and it works great)
if [[ $current_tree = /usr/users/mktowns/* ]]; then
Use [[ ... ]] (done in the shell) instead of [ ... ] (runs the test
program).
Also suggested the following Korn Shell book.
Learn how to use Korn shell patterns.
Read Bolsky & Korn's _The_New_Kornshell_.
Received on Wed Jun 03 1998 - 23:46:52 NZST