hi,

Please explain the below stmt.

P=1234
var1=:/a/b/c/file.dat

printf "%s %s\n" "$" "${var1#?}"


Output is:
1234 /a/b/c/file.dat

What is #? in printf stmt? by using that the first character( : ) of "var1" variable is not displayed in output. How is that? please explain..


Thanks,
Sri