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Surely you can check an environment variables value in the shell, without the need to call Awk. As it stands, it doesn't seem to be a good example of using the Unix shell. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 07:59, 11 September 2011 (UTC) |
Surely you can check an environment variables value in the shell, without the need to call Awk. As it stands, it doesn't seem to be a good example of using the Unix shell. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 07:59, 11 September 2011 (UTC) |
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:We cannot check for substrings on a Bourne shell, so we have to use AWK. Other shell implementation may not need to do this of course. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 08:02, 11 September 2011 (UTC) |
:We cannot check for substrings on a Bourne shell, so we have to use AWK. Other shell implementation may not need to do this of course. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 08:02, 11 September 2011 (UTC) |
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::Actually, it looks like you can match substrings by using the switch command. If this works I will try and rewrite this to get rid of awk. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 08:20, 11 September 2011 (UTC) |
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