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Old 11-06-2009
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Awk Command help

Hi Everybody

I am a newbee to the unix scripting.
i had a string like Id: 1234567, length 7
can you please help me to get only 1234567 (no coma) from string.

thanks in advance.
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Code:
Id="1234567, length 7"
echo ${Id%%,*}
1234567

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