How to cut prefix from a string?

nir_s · #1 (**permalink**) 02-19-2006

Hi folks,

I have the following parameter setting:
export ADMIN_HOST_NAME=http://hostname.com

I want to define a new parameter,ADMIN_HOST_NAME_NEW,which based on $ADMIN_HOST_NAME but I need to remove the prefix "http://".
The requested result for $ADMIN_HOST_NAME_NEW is hostname.com

How to cut this prefix from the parameter?

Thanks in advance,
Nir

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-19-2006

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

a='http://hostname.com'
b="${a##http://}"
echo "${b}"

nir_s · #3 (**permalink**) 02-19-2006

Hi vgersh99,

Thanks a lot!
It works perfect!

Regards,
Nir

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