[wellylug] BASH scripting help required

[Tim Nicholas]

On 07/05/04 10:55, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> I have a script that does some file manipulation then sends a file out of
> the serial port.
> Each file is reference as $file (via a for 'file in <filespec>' type setup).
> What I need to do is to be able to test on the first character of the
> filename and process something accordingly - ie. if the first character is
> 'L' then do one thing, if it is 'P' do another etc. My skills at string
> manipulation in Unix/BASH are terrible (at best) and I wonder if someone
> caqn give me some pointers on how to do this.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jamie
> 
> 


Try something like this.

for file in yes no yellow fish; do
	if [ ${file:0:1} == "y" ]; then
		echo $file
	fi
done

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