Re: (sh/bash) How to check for a string matching -*?

On 20 Jun 2010 15:53:54 GMT, Martin Vaeth
<vaeth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

case $1 in -*) false;; esac || echo "$start with -"

I think that's harder to read. I had to test it to be sure it worked.

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