> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of James Melin
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: I am missing something basic with bash scripting.
>
>
> I am trying to get away from hard coded server names in a
> script using case for valid name check
>
> This works but is not good because as soon as you add a new
> server to the NFS mountpoint list the script this is from has
> to be changed.
>
> case $target_system in
> abinodji | calhoun | itasca | nokomis | pepin | phalen |
> vadnais | bemidji | millpond | mudlake | terrapin | hadley |
> hyland ) parm_1="valid";;
> esac
>
>
> So I tried several variants of this:
>
> space=" "
> delim=" | "
> raw_list=`ls /clamscan/servers` #read list of mountpoints
> cooked_list=$(echo $raw_list | sed -e "s:$space:$delim:g")
> #replace space with case-happy delimiters
> echo "Raw list = "$raw_list
> echo "cooked list = "$cooked_list
> case $target_system in
> $cooked_list ) parm_1="valid" ;;
> esac
>
> But even though the display of 'cooked_list' seems to be what
> I want it to be, this never returns a match.
>
> Anyone see where I missed the turnip truck on this?
I cannot answer your question. Perhaps the "case" does not allow the
delimiters with a shell variable? I don't know. the following should
work in place of the "case" construct, however. It has more overhead,
but should work.
echo ${raw_list} | egrep -q "\<${target_system}\>" && parm_1="valid"
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