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I'm using BASH, and I don't know how to find a substring. It keeps failing, I've got a string (should this be an array?) Below, LIST is a string list of database names, SOURCE is the reply, one of those databases. The following still doesn't work: echo "******************************************************************" echo "* DB2 Offline Backup Script *" echo "******************************************************************" echo "What's the name of of the database you would like to backup?" echo "It will be named one in this list:" echo "" LIST=`db2 list database directory | grep "Database alias" | awk '{print $4}'` echo $LIST echo "" echo "******************************************************************" echo -n ">>> " read -e SOURCE if expr match "$LIST" "$SOURCE"; then echo "match" exit -1 else echo "no match" fi exit -1 I've also tried this but doesn't work: if [ `expr match "$LIST" '$SOURCE'` ]; then
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