test for a pattern in sh?

[Florian Diesch]

stan <stanb at panix.com> writes:

> I need to do something like this:
>
> if $VAR does not contain SV do something
>
> I found some examples for patterm`n matching with case, but I'd reaher use
> an if here, if I can do pattern matching with it.

  if ! echo "$VAR"|grep -q SV; then 
    do_something 
  fi

or

   echo "$VAR"|grep -q SV || do_something 



   Florian
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