Regular expression inside case statement notworking

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have the following script:

For catching errors like:

But the regular expression ERROR*memory inside case doesn't seem to be working.
The output of bash -x scriptname is:

Please help

2

Remove the quotes:

ERROR*memory
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3

Thanks,works like a charm.
I need another help, now the script is unable to catch any new line matching the pattern

Is there any fundamental error in the script?

4

The output that passes through the pipe is buffered, I suppose you just need to wait until the buffer gets flushed ...
(just add some more lines and you should see the script working).

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5

Does ERROR.memory and ERRORmemory mean the same?

6

No, you're using shell pattern matching, not regular expressions. The dot ( . ) has no special meaning in shell pattern matching
(it just matches a literal dot).