I'm stuck, so please tell me how to print the initials of a name (for ex E C for Eric Cartman).
If you could suggest a website related to string handling then that would be much appreciated too.
Thanks!
Thanks. But that seems like some sort of shortcut for the actual problem. If the name is given all lowercase then what? Dont consider it a name at all actually. Just print first letter of all words in an input line. It would be a shell script that way.
Anyone?
It would be nice to know what context you are trying to do this in. As has been suggested, if you have a file of first and last names, just run a sed across the file. However, if you have a string, or two tokens, as a part of a loop in a programme, then the answer will be different. As an example, if you are working in ksh or bash this is much more efficient than running sed for each individual string:
If you need E.C. or E. C. you can do something like this:
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Again, if you're using a Ksh like shell language, then you could just echo out the first characters like this:
I have this code that works great ...
#!/bin/sh
for file in "$@"
do
ext=${file##*.}
base=${file%.*}
num=${base##*v}
zeroes=${num%%*}
num=${num#$zeroes} #remove leading zeros, or it uses octal
num=$((num+1))
base=${base%v*}
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I have a requirement like i have to find out files and remove them on a daily basis.
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abd_jnfn_201404220004.csv
abe_jnfn_201404220004.csv
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