Re: bash scripts conditionals and substrings

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:43 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> I now have in my tried and failed...
>

> #    if [ "START" == ${i:5:5} ]
> #    if [ `echo $i | awk '{print substr($i,5,5)}'` = "START" ]
> #    if [ `expr substr $i 5 5` == "START" ]

As a test, try echoing ${$i:5:5} directly inside the 'do' structure
without any "if" conditionals. Make sure it shows what you expect
("START").

...Kevin



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