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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:34:08 -0600
From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@datapipe.com>
To: Gary Kline <kline@magnesium.net>
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Subject: Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
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Is this what you mean?

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#!/bin/sh

STRING="mystring.gz"

if [ ".gz" = "`echo \"$STRING\" | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'`" ]; then
 echo test;
fi

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~Paul

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Is there an easy way of determing whether a string//filename ends in
> *.gz? using /bin/sh?  I spend around 20 minutes cobbling together 
> scripts to burn ISO files last night.  Then blindly wasted one CD-R file that 
> was gzipped..... tar barfs on you,but cdrecord dev=foo.gz writes
> exactly that.   I'd like to add a line that yells at me, then gunzips and does 
> an MD5; then writes.   (In C, no prob; C lets me fly, but not /bin/sh.
> But anyway, if any guru can clue me in, thanks. I think my brain is in Maui
> for a few days.
> 
> tiam
> 
> gary
> 
> 
> 
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