Hi all go easy on me as im still getting the hang of this

iv got a bash script that will bundle a few files together. to run it you enter somthing like this

bundle house home light > newfile

this will put the 3 files "house home light" together in the newfile.

I got it doing that but now need to add some error checking.

im trying to make the script detect if the user tries to add a "/" character in any of the parameters and if so output an error message.

how would i go about checking the parameters to see if they contain the '/' character ?

thanx all for your help

Should it error out if one of the parameters is equal to '/' or also if it contains '/'.

cat /etc/host /etc/dhcpd.conf /etc/resolv.conf > cat.out

should be legal. You would want to make sure the user does not pass any directory as one of the parameters.

Walker:

I'm assming any slash is an error. The following tested under ksh and bash exits, but you don't have to:

for i in $*
do
# all on one line
echo "$i"|grep "\/" > /dev/null && echo " $i has a /" && exit 1
done

Regards,

Nails