shell help: check for regex in variable

[Ian Petersen]

On 3/12/07, Sergey Semenyuk <ssemenyuk-5xk6gukWl5lWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> if  [ -z "`echo $pidfile | egrep -e '\.pid$'`" ]; then
>   doesn't have pid at the end

You could probably also do that this way:

if echo $pidfile | grep -q '\.pid$'; then
 echo it does have pid at the end;
fi

Ian

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