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To: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>
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Subject: Re: how to search for a substring in a parameter?
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>I'm trying to see if the value of a parameter contains a given string
>but didn't find an elegant way.

	if [[ $parameter == *given_string* ]]; then
		# yes
	else
		# no
	fi

-zefram