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Re: Problems with shell script (bash)


To see what's going on in a bash script do

set -xv

./scriptname

set +xv

On Thu, 28 Aug 1997 12:23:50 -0700, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm having a problem with bash, tr, or echo... I'm not sure who the culprit
>is here. In any case, here's a short script:
>
>>#!/bin/sh
>>
>>OPTIONS="A B C"
>>
>>FOUND="FALSE"
>>FIND=`echo a | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`
>>
>>echo $FIND
>>
>>for opt in $OPTIONS ; do
>>  if [ $opt = $FIND ] ; then
>>    FOUND="TRUE"
>>  fi
>>done
>>
>>echo $FOUND
>>
>
>What it should echo at the end is TRUE since 'A' is in "A B C".
>But it echos FALSE. Note, that this works on my UNIX box. Also, if I say
>FIND=`echo A | tr '[a-z'] '[A-Z]'` that fails also.
>
>Thanks,
>Yung Hsien
>yung@connectinc.com
>
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