From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18634 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2006 14:06:18 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Jan 2006 14:06:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 49908 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2006 14:06:11 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 21 Jan 2006 14:06:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 11422 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2006 14:06:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9843 Received: (qmail 11408 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2006 14:06:01 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 21 Jan 2006 14:06:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 48572 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2006 14:06:01 -0000 Received: from her-isrv.ionific.com (195.197.73.227) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 21 Jan 2006 14:05:59 -0000 Received: from her-gw.ionific.com ([195.197.73.226] helo=trews52.bothi.fi) by her-isrv.ionific.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1F0JNN-0005jN-00; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:05:57 +0200 Received: from azure by trews52.bothi.fi with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1F0JNF-0003Qd-00; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:05:49 +0200 To: Matthias Berndt Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: string starts with ... Mail-copies-to: nobody From: Hannu Koivisto Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:05:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20060121135331.GA557@antares.ba-leipzig.de> (Matthias Berndt's message of "Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:53:31 +0100") Message-ID: <87oe254qx8.fsf@trews52.bothi.fi> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.4 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) References: <20060121135331.GA557@antares.ba-leipzig.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Hannu Koivisto Matthias Berndt writes: > how can I test if a string starts with '#'? > I can't find the trick. [[ $YOURSTRING == \#* ]] See "Conditional Expressions" in the manual. -- Hannu