Re: [Help-bash] checking file line: 'commit;'

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 04:55:33PM +0200, Paolo Supino wrote:
> You're right... The file were originally written in Windows and there's
> Windows garbage (carriage return) follows 'commit;' string :-( Changing the
> check to 'commit;'$'\r'  fixes the problem...

First point: you can write that as $'commit;\r'

Second point: in the future, the carriage return may not always be
present.  So you probably want a check like:

if [[ $string = $'commit;' || $string = $'commit;\r' ]]

Of course there are many other ways to write it.  I'd use case myself,
but you seem to dislike it, so here's one using [[ and ||.