shell help: check for regex in variable

[William Park]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:38:28AM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
> How can I check that a variable ends in .pid?
> 
> loose example
> pidfile="/var/run/myproc.pid"
> 
> if [[ $pidfile contains ".*\.pid$" ]]
> 
> Is this possible?

case $pidfile in
    *.pid) echo ... ;;
esac

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