Sweet! I like that one (other than that it's in bash instead of perl) ;-)
--Don Ellis


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David Dooling
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:36:07PM -0600, Scott Granneman wrote:
> > is there a shorter way to do this:
> >
> > if [ $whatsthemonth = January -o $whatsthemonth = February -o
> > $whatsthemonth = March -o $whatsthemonth = April -o $whatsthemonth =
> > May -o $whatsthemonth = June -o $whatsthemonth = July -o
> > $whatsthemonth = August -o $whatsthemonth = September -o
> > $whatsthemonth = October -o $whatsthemonth = November -o
> > $whatsthemonth = December ]
> >
> > than what i did?
>
> case "$whatsthemonth" in January|February|March|...) ...;; esac
>
> --
> David Dooling
> http://www.politigenomics.com/
>
>

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