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Conditional regex pattern matching in a korn shell script
I have started learning Unix shell scripting using korn shell. Please enlighten me finding the mistake I am doing while writing a ksh code for below a problem as stated below : My script takes 2 ...
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Why does =~ operator give a syntax error on Solaris while comparing with a regular expression
I used this following piece of code appcount_range="^[1-$APP_COUNT]$" until [[ $APP_OPTION =~ $appcount_range ]] do echo "INVALID CHOICE! Please enter a valid option:" ...
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Regular Expression for Mixed cased words
I want a regular expression that will help me identify if a certain pattern is present as a mixed case in a sentence or not. Say: Fox juMPed the rock Now, I want to find that if the pattern jumped ...
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Regex for phrase matching with case statement in ksh
I am trying to start or stop a service on AIX in ksh. I am trying to start to build in fool proofing for checking things like if the services is already down, etc. Here is my script #!/bin/ksh #####...
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Match regex in ksh
I am looking to do something like this in KSH: if (( $var = (foo|bar)[0-9]*$ )); then print "variable matched regex" fi Is it possible at all? For the record I'm using Ksh Version M-11/16/88i on ...
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regexp in ksh for extensions tgz, tar.tgz
I'm trying to get a regexp (in ksh) to identify files with only the following extensions: tgz, tar.gz, TGZ and TAR.GZ. I tried several but can't get them to work. I'm using this regexp to select only ...
