If you are using korn shell, then why spawn a new process to do this. Try:
a="somefile.gz"
if [ "$a" != "${a%.gz}" ] ; then
echo "this is a gz file"
elif [ "$a" != "${a%.z}" ] ; then
echo "this is a z file"
else
echo "I don't know"
fi
You could also do this...
a="somefile.gz"
SUFFIX=".${a#*\.}"
FILE="${a%$SUFFIX}"
echo "$a $FILE $SUFFIX"
Ron.
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I will beat Jared to this, What about using Perl?
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Christopher R. Spence
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Hi, all
I'm writing some auto backup/refresh script, do you
know any command that returns only size or extenstion
or a file? (there will be only one file in the
directory)
I know awk can return only a part of the output, but
somehow I cann't combine awk and ls -l successfully.
ls -s returns some size I don't want, I'd like to have
size as shown in ls -l.
For the refresh script, I like to check file
extension, so if it's in gz, I'll gunzip; if it's Z,
I'll uncompress.
Thanks!
Andrea
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