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From: wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: string comparisons
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.061632.4096@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 17 Mar 91 06:16:32 GMT
References: <2847@kluge.fiu.edu> <1991Mar14.225901.3973@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
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In article <1991Mar14.225901.3973@mrspoc.Transact.COM> steven@Transact.COM writes:
]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.

The test program (aka "[") is accessible from either shell, and is a
builtin for modern shells like ksh.  In sh, just do
	if [ "$foo" = "$bar" ]
	then true-stuff
	else false-stuff
Read the manual for csh.
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					Bill
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