Ash script - detect whether a variable equals to “?”

Question

I am writing an Ash script and trying to detect whether an input variable equals to "?" or not. I found out that it is best to use case for doing this, but I can't manage to get this working. My code is:

case $@ in
*?*) usage
    operationSucceeded
    exit;;
  *) echo "Unknown argument: $@"
    usage
    operationFailed
    exit $E_OPTERROR;;   # DEFAULT\
esac

The first option always gets triggered, while I want it to trigger only when ? is the variable, and the other option for everything else.

Answer 1

change to

 case $@ in
     *[\?]* ) usage 
    .....
  easc

You may not need the '\\' , but it can't hurt.

In the more general sense, [ABC] is called a character class, and will match any of the single chars listed inside [ ] . So in *[\\?]* , we're saying "any number of characters (including zero chars), followed by the Char class [\\?] (in this case, only the '?' char), followed by zero or more characters".

IHTH