Date: 8 Jan 2008 05:47:53 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: pprocacci@datapipe.com Subject: Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file Message-ID: <20080108054753.90411.qmail@simone.iecc.com> In-Reply-To: <20080108053408.GA95218@procacci.kicks-ass.org>
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>--------------------- >#!/bin/sh > >if [ ".gz" = "`echo \"$STRING\" | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'`" ]; then > echo test; >fi Ewwww. I think that we can now safely take advantage of features added to the shell in the late 1970s. ----------------------- #!/bin/sh case "$1" in *.gz) echo that is a gzipped file ;; *) echo that is not a gzipped file ;; esac -----------------------
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