Patterns and string processing in shell scripts

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Dec 27, 2008 1:26 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Peter Seebach
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Shell programming is heavily dependent on string processing. The term string is used generically to refer to any sequence of characters; typical examples of strings might be a line of input or a single argument to a command. Users enter responses to prompts, file names are generated, and commands produce output. Recurring throughout this is the need to determine whether a given string conforms to a given pattern; this process is called pattern matching. The shell has a fair amount of built-in pattern matching functionality.

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