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Old 12-04-2008
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Originally Posted by radoulov View Post
And what's wrong with Franklin52's solution?
Absolutely nothing, I was working on it while you posted this solution.
It looks great exept that as a newbie, I don't fully understand the syntax
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Originally Posted by radoulov View Post
Code:
$ cat s
#! /bin/bash
tr 2>&- -d "$2"<<<"$1"
What is <<<? Is this a way of doing echo?
I understand the tr -d but what does 2>&- means?
redirect errors to &-? What is &-?
Thanks for your help.
Santiago