shell help: check for regex in variable

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, 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)
         true
         ;;
      *)
         false
         ;;
esac


     Replace true and false with the appropriate actions.

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