is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

[Paul Procacci]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:41:35PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:34:08PM -0600, Paul Procacci wrote:
> > Is this what you mean?
> > 
> > ---------------------
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > STRING="mystring.gz"
> > 
> > if [ ".gz" = "`echo \"$STRING\" | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'`" ]; then
> >  echo test;
> > fi
> > 
> > -----------------------
> > 
> > ~Paul
> > 
> 
> 	Sorry.  You get the credit for the predicate expression; Jon had the 
> 	simpler 
> 	(and more readable:) one.    But yours is warm+fuzzy in it's cleverness
> 	:-)
> 
> 	gary
> 
> 
> 
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Quite truthfully, I forget a lot about case/esac most of the time.  It always
seems to elude me.  I guess it doesn't help that I'm a sed mongrel.

And for what it's worth, I agree that what I provided wasn't pretty, but at
least it gives everyone something to stare at for a while.  ;P

Have a good night all!

~Paul