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I'm using BASH, and I don't know how to find a substring. It keeps failing, I've got a string (should this be an array?) Below, LIST is a string list of database names, SOURCE is the reply, one of ...

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Output is same, and it always echos need to pull. If I remove the quotes around $text in if condition it throws the too many arguments error. var="$(git status -uno)" && text="On branch ...

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I want to check if my string contains one or more asterisks. I have tried this: if [[ $date_alarm =~ .*\*.* ]] then ... fi It worked when I launch the script directly, but not if this script is ...

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In a bash shell, I want to take the take a given string that matches a regex, and then take the part of the string. For example, given https://github.com/PatrickConway/repo-name.git, I want to ...

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I am currently trying to find a string within a variable that outputs something like this: one,two,three My code: echo "please enter one,two or three) read var var1=one,two,threee if [[ "$var" == ...

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if[ xxx ] how to expresss the string or file include '.' I am new to study shell,thanks for any help

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This question does not answer my question. I have a script that checks the existence of specific environment variables and prints them with their values. Now I want to mask the values of password ...

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I am wanting to use a switch/ case statement in bash to check if a file name which is a string contains something but also does not. Here is my case: case "$fileName" in *Failed|!cp*) ...

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I have the following piece of code where I am trying to match the word "test" in the given string: str="some test string" if [ $str == *"test"* ]; then # [: too many ...

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I'm trying to write a small backupscript which should get executed every hour via cronjob. While the script does monthly/weekly/daily backups and these work, i also would like to perform hourly ...

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I am trying to understand a piece of code here and as I am not an expert on bash, I am struggling to find out what the below if does: if [[ "4ドル" == *"-a "* ]]; then I understand ...

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So this is admittedly for university, but I can't find the answer anywhere, nor online, nor in the lecture notes. I basically take a parameter, and have to search, if that is part of a longer string ...

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Am having difficulty checking if the contents of a variable contains a certain value or not e.g "Device_info" The main code if [ "${NUMBERRESULTS}" -eq 10 ] then echo "Success" else echo "...

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I have a string given below: string1 = "Hello there, my name is Jack. Hello there, my name is Jack. Hello there, my name is Jack." I'm taking the following input from the string: read ...

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Similar to how in python you can do 'if letter in string:', I'm trying to imitate this in bash. The code is below: SYMBOLS="ABC" msg="alskdfjAasdksdfh!?asdflkjhghrg" # Loops through each letter in ...