On 17:58 29 Apr 2002, christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| i've been reading about advanced bash scripting on some webpage, but i can't
| seem to find what i'm looking for.
|
| is there an easy way to tell if a var is in a list (a list like in a for loop
| list)? is there a keyword that does what continue does in c?
|
| i wanna get this sudo (sp?) code working...
|
| EXCLUDE_LIST = "dir1 dir2 dir3"
| for DIR in `ls -d */` ; do
| if [ $DIR in $EXCLUDE_LIST ] ; then
| continue;
| fi
| echo $DIR
| done
case " $EXCLUDE_LIST " in
*" $DIR "*) echo in list ;;
esac
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