OT: scripting help - can you check a string for starts with?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 19Dec2007 12:17, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:
| Thanks to all that replied. My final solution is if/then/else's. Not as
| efficient as a case but does the job,

It's MUCH slower. Overuse of grep is one of the contributing factors to
the RedHat boot scripts' slowness.

Cheers,
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