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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list