Re: does a variable contain...

Bruce Bowler wrote:

Imagine

var1=SomeValueThatComesFromElsewhere

Is there a way, in bash, to determine if the value in var1 contains the string "From"?

I suppose I could echo it into a temporary file and grep for "From" but that seems a little less than optimal. Is there a better way?

Thanks!
Bruce

case $var in
*From* ) echo "Eureka!" ;;
esac

Ed.
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