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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding longest common substring among filenames Post 302267603 by cfajohnson on Friday 12th of December 2008 07:41:55 PM
Old 12-12-2008
Code:
set -- *
files=$#
name=$1
while [ -n "$name" ]
do
  set -- $name*
  [ $# -eq $files ] && break
  name=${name%?}
done
echo $name

 

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