Re: Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell
Date	2016-09-26 17:50 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:39:59AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> #      string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cfg; fi
> 
> I need for the case when evaluates to marybobsam .
> I can find examples in bash shell, but I need dash.

Are you asking how to check for the substring "bob" in your input,
in POSIX sh?  Use case, and a glob:

case $input in
  *bob*) echo "Bob found." ;;
esac

case $(hostname) in
  *bob*) echo "I must be a Bob." ;;
esac

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Re: Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-26 17:50 +0200
  Re: Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-27 06:00 +0200
    Re: Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-09-27 06:20 +0200
    Re: Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 10:00 +0200

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