At 3:58 PM +0900 12/19/07, John Summerfield wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: >> At 8:48 PM -0500 12/18/07, James Pifer wrote: >>> Need a bit of scripting help. I have a very small script with a case >>> statement. The object of the case statement is derived from the >>> dmidecode command to determine the type of machine it is, if possible. >>> It works fine, but we're finding that a lot of the HP type machines >>> respond with a model number plus other information. For example, we >>> might get these two: >>> >>> HP Compaq dc7700 30GB6000 >>> HP Compaq dc7700 60GB6000 >Here's a real one. >Product Name: HP Compaq dc7700 Small Form Factor > >>> >>> Those are completely made up, the point being that we want to match on >>> just "HP Compaq dc7700" and forget the rest. >> ... >> >> case $printername in >> "HP Compaq dc7700"*) echo "found $printername" ;; >> esac > ><chortle> > >the example's fine, but read again what he's looking at:-) Yes, so? Your "real one" will be found also. If you think what I said won't work, give a counterexample. Perhaps you don't want to nest two case statements, one for "Produce Name:" and the other for the specific products? It's not really needed, as the match strings could all start with "Product Name:"*. case $line in "Product Name:"*) case $line in *"HP Compaq dc7700"*) echo "found $printername" ;; esac ;; esac -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list