Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:41:35 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@magnesium.net> To: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@datapipe.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@magnesium.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file Message-ID: <20080108074135.GC20085@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20080108053408.GA95218@procacci.kicks-ass.org> References: <20080108051058.GA19698@thought.org> <20080108053408.GA95218@procacci.kicks-ass.org>
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:34:08PM -0600, Paul Procacci wrote:
> Is this what you mean?
>
> ---------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> STRING="mystring.gz"
>
> if [ ".gz" = "`echo \"$STRING\" | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'`" ]; then
> echo test;
> fi
>
> -----------------------
>
> ~Paul
>
Sorry. You get the credit for the predicate expression; Jon had the
simpler
(and more readable:) one. But yours is warm+fuzzy in it's cleverness
:-)
gary
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