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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: string comparisons
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.225901.3973@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 91 22:59:01 GMT
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Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:

>under csh or sh, how do i compare two strings?

Either use expr(1) or awk(1).  Depends on how elaborate you want to get.
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