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Re: [Help-bash] checking file line: 'commit;'
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] checking file line: 'commit;' |
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Thu, 11 Aug 2016 10:52:38 -0400 |
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On 8/11/16 10:34 AM, Paolo Supino wrote:
> Hi Chet
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> thank you for the reply, I tried [ "$string" = 'commit;' ] but it didn't
> work :-( and I don't think that case cuts it for my problem.
Then your initial problem statement was inaccurate. Either your string
has leading whitespace or there is some other character in the string
that prevents it from exactly matching `commit;'.
>> On 8/11/16 8:59 AM, Paolo Supino wrote:
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>>> Can anyone please help understand how I
>>> can check that a string equals to commit;
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/