creating script error messages

[Guest_imported]

Hi, just a quick newbie question,

I'm writing a script which takes a filename as a parameter and I'm writing the error messages such as -

if [ -d $file ] then echo "$file is a directory"

but how do I create one that is returned when there is a particular character or string in the name of the file ?

many thanks

 

[RobJordan]

Probably more than one way to do this,
but here's one way.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
TEXT=abc #put what you want to search for here

MATCH=`echo $FILE_NAME|grep $TEXT`
if [ ${#MATCH} -gt 0 ]
then
echo "Found a Match!
else
echo "No match found!"
fi

# you can also change the grep
# to a grep -i if you want to ignore case Robert G. Jordan

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