script

[This should be on its way to being obsoleted by drush, but i'm using it for Drupal 7 alpha so thought i'd finally make sure it was shared.]

Download this and other useful scripts from their public repository on gitorious.

(Please use the code from the repository, the below may be out of date.)

bash script compare text

if [ $var == "value" ]
then
echo is the same
fi

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/209/bournebash-shell-scripts-string-comparison/

(Numbers are -eq)

bash script check for existence of any argument

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "USAGE: scriptname arg1 arg2"
return
fi