I know you said this was solved a different way. But anyways ...

Go back in the archives a couple weeks ago.

A single equal (=) is correct. See the test(1) man page.

Set a variable to your value first.

Then do something like:

value=`echo $i | awk '{print substr($i,6,6)}'`
if [ "x${value}" = "xSTART" ] ; then

(Notice 6,6 above also.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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