Testing for strings, and numbers

[Florian Diesch]

Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> writes:

> I am writing a bash script and I would like to test $1 to see if it 
> begins with the string "http://" but I am not coming up with a method of 
> doing so.
>
> Also I would like to know how to test $1 to see if it begins with a 
> numeric digit.


case "$1" in
    http://*) echo http;;
    [0-9]*) echo Numeric;;
    *) echo Unknown;;
esac



   Florian
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