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stripping leading /
From: |
Charles Wilkins |
Subject: |
stripping leading / |
Date: |
Wed, 23 May 2001 23:17:33 GMT |
I am looking for the most generic way to strip the leading frontslash
character from a string from within a shell script.
I know that this is easily done in bash by using this pattern matching
operator #.
example:
file="/home/user"
echo ${file#/}
the output in bash would be:
home/user
What is the most generic way to do this for all shell scripts?
Thanks in advance for a prompt reply.
Feel free to email me direct at chas@pcscs.com
Best regards,
Charles Wilkins
- stripping leading /,
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