trouble with "||" operand

[Dennis Handly]

>O'Kevin: Which shell are you using?

Chris is obviously using a real shell and not the scummy C shell.

>Aashique: your pattern hdisk[0-9]* will not work in if condition.

Why not? Pattern matching will work in [[ ]].

[Aashique]

Hi,
I check this way and its running.
$ more test
ANS=vpath02
a=`echo $ANS|awk '/hdisk[0-9]/ {print $0}'`
b=`echo $ANS|awk '/vpath[0-9]/ {print $0}'`

if [ $a ] || [ $b ]
then
echo " YES"
else
echo "NO"
fi
$ ./test
YES

[lawrenzo_1]

just back from lunch

Ok thanks all,

I'll give take a look at these suggestions and let you know ...

[lawrenzo_1]

thanks all for the help and suggestions - Dennis gave the best solution for the korn shell!

#!/bin/ksh

print "Please enter a hdisk or vpath you would like to check and potentially remove: \c"

while true
do

read ANS

if [[ $ANS = hdisk[0-9]* || $ANS = vpath[0-9]* ]] ; then

break
print "incorrect selection please enter a valid hdisk or vpath: \c"

else

print "incorrect selection please enter a valid hdisk or vpath: \c"

fi
done

echo $ANS

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi chris,

have a look the following url:
http://www.injunea.demon.co.uk/pages/page205.htm

should look something like:
if [ $ANS != hdisk[0-9]* ] || [ $ANS != vpath[0-9]* ]
then
..

(unfortunately, i do not have any machine at hand to validate this right now!)

The [[ ]] are not properly stated.

hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Dennis Handly]

>Yogeeraj: have a look the following URL:
http://www.injunea.demon.co.uk/pages/page205.htm

This appears to be Borne shell document, not ksh or posix.
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/sh-posix.1.html
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/ksh.1.html