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

[wwp]

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
	..
fi


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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