Re: Is the right person to ask?

[Chet Ramey]

> I have experience writing bash scripts but one thing that has always
> eluded me is how to tell one string from another such as I would like to
> check a string to see if it is JUST numeric or JUST characters and n
> numbers.

Look at the files examples/functions/{isnum.bash,isnum2} in the bash-2.04
distribution.

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