On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:59:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> if {the first word of "uname -a" is Linux}
Hi, Colin and others gave "correct" answers :-)
Just for the heck, I have no "awk", no "sed", no shell pattern match to
do this.
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#!/bin/sh
get_first () {
BUFFER=$1
}
get_first `uname -a`
if [ $BUFFER = "Linux" ] ; then
echo Linux is the first word
fi
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I call this a stupid shell trick with function. You can do 2nd and
third word match easily with this in system with only POSIX shell.
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