Bash if statement + RegEx + String matching

After going slowly crazy trying to remember how an if statement is formed in shell with its lovely and entirely useless help messages.

 I've decided to post this: #!/bin/sh FULLHOSTNAME=`hostname -f` if [ "$FULLHOSTNAME" = "loneqflocfd0025.uk.db.com" ]; then echo "hi" fi 

  Notes: You need a space after '[' and before ']' You need a ';' ...and while I'm here - here is how to do a regex if:

  if [[ "los" =~ lo.* ]]; then 

  ...String matching with variables When comparing strings " is very different to ' ' will not evaluate variables " will evaluate them 

Hence: fish=haddock echo 'Hello $fish'=== Hello $fish echo "Hello $fish" === Hello haddock 

 

Using dates and comparing current time with something that may have taken less than 2 seconds:


  start=`date +%s`

  # Do something


  now=`date +%s`

   if [ $start -gt $((now - 2)) ];
   then
      printf "Fast fail detected. I know about:\n" 


   fi