Bash Script Question

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:59:43AM -0500, Linda wrote:
> It has been 20 years since I did shell scripting. I was wondering if 
> anyone could help me out so I didn't have to find my old reference manuals.
> 
> I have the following bash shell script
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # print.sh
> # print files from the right-click context menu in Nautilus
> #place this script in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
...
> I would like to change it so it only prints pdf, ps and txt files will 
> this work.
> 
> echo "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" | while
> read file
>    
> case "$file" in
>   '*.pdf ' | ''*.PDF')
>   '*.ps ' | ''*.PS')
>   '*.txt ' | ''*.TXT') lpr "$file"
>                               ;;
>   esac
> exit

No, but you're close.  This should work:

case "$file" in
  *.pdf|*.PDF|*.ps|*.PS|*.txt|*.TXT)
    lpr "$file"
    ;;
esac

Marius Gedminas
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