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Greetings Guys,

I am currently creating a frontend for a dropable application in Mac OS, for the backend I am using sh/bash.

Currently I have a for look checking to see if it a directory, however I have been unable to find a way to check and see if a string/variable contains .kext.

Mainly I want to check command line arg and throw it in an if != loop if it ($2) does not contain .kext in it.

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Mofo-X
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This checks $2 to see if ".kext" is anywhere in the $2 parameter
Shell Scripting Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. echo "$2" | grep -q '.kext'
  2. if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] ; then   
  3.   echo '.kext found'
  4. else
  5.   echo '.kext not found'
  6. fi
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Shell Scripting Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. if [[ $2 != *.kext* ]] ; then
  2.    ...
  3. fi
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