OT: scripting help - can you check a string for starts with?

[John Summerfield]

wwp wrote:
> Hello James,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:17:21 -0500 James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks to all that replied. My final solution is if/then/else's. Not as
>> efficient as a case but does the job, and I can look for the substrings
>> that I need using:
>>
>> if echo "$SYSTEMNAME" | grep -q "HP Compaq dc7700"
>> then
>> 	blah blah blah
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>>
> 
> Many ways to do it, bash also allows substring matching: ${FOO:n[m]}
> For instance:
> 
> LINE=$(whatever command gives your chars to filter out)
> MATCH="HP Compaq dc7700"
> if [ "${LINE:0:${#MATCH}}" == "$MATCH" ]
> then

It does, but I prefer a style that's easier for a person to understand, 
and to hell with the computers' time, it has too much power anyway!


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