From: Bill Verzal (Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 12:10:17 EST
echo "$variable"|wc -c
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Hi-
Anyone know how I can check in a korn shell script:
if [[ length of variable $i is > 5 characters ]]
then
do something
fi
thanks,
-pablo
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