input has 2 .'s or none, but is an int in either case!

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Relating to this question,
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x58fec6af36b7d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

I'm attempting to put the two possible functions into one script and based on input run the appropriate command.

ie

./script 1.1.10
(script recognises this has 2 periods in it and sets VALUE=1

./script 65892
(script recognises this has not got . in it and sets value=2

./script abcd
(script recognised this is not numerical and sets value=3

I've seen posts like this (IP address scripts) and some on linux, but can't find them for the moment.

Best ways to do this?
Later,
Bill

[Santosh Nair_1]

Again, needs to be cleaned up but here's one solution:

-------------cut here --------------
#!/bin/sh

read input
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=.
set -- $input
echo $1 $2 $3

if [[ ! -n $2 ]]
then
case $1 in
+([0-9]))
echo "One integer value $1"
break
;;
*)
echo "One non-integer value $1"
break
;;
esac
fi
-------------cut here --------------

-Santosh

[harry d brown jr]

Would you be willing to write this in perl?

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Can't guarentee that perl will be on all systems it'll be run on.
Thanks anyway.

Bill

[Robin Wakefield · Accepted solution]

Hi Bill,

This should do it:

#!/bin/sh

VALUE=3
echo $1 | grep -E -q "^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$" && VALUE=1
echo $1 | grep -E -q "^[0-9]+$" && VALUE=2
echo $VALUE

Rgds, Robin.

[Santosh Nair_1]

Slight modifications to my original script:

----cut here----
#!/bin/sh

input=$1
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=.
set -- $input
let VALUE=1
if [[ ! -n $2 ]]
then
case $1 in
+([0-9]))
VALUE=2
break
;;
*)
VALUE=3
break
;;
esac
fi
echo $VALUE
----cut here----

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

Best source scripts for IP manage i have seen never is on SCO systems, now Netware.

All that validations are done by shell scripting.

And for all that like learn shell script programming, try to read installation scripts of drivers on SCO.

Good Luck.

[Wodisch]

Hello Bill,

even if I am the only one using "case" it still
seems easiest to me that way:

case "$1" in
*.*.*) exit 1;;
*[^0-9]*) exit 3;;
*) exit 2;;
esac


but I am not logged into a UN*X system,
so it might not work...

Regards,
Wodisch