Philip Dowie wrote:
Rewritten to shell it would be something like
[ "`echo "$line" | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`" = "QUIT" ] && break
Good grief read the prior messages in the thread. There is no need and no excuse to spawn child shells and other processes for this.
which, IMHO is the *entire* point.
I know - someday - I'm going to have to learn BASH -- but -- this is why I, personally, still use REXX - it makes things - way - so - much - simpler. Plus 30+ years background in programming in REXX. Aside - I can't even imagine trying this one in bash -- years ago, I wrote a - REXX ReAssembler - reading mainframe 370 objects decks to the mainframe 370 assembler source. (In case anyone wants to look at it - I still have the script) Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org