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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to get the most left hand string ?? Post 302088347 by jfortes on Monday 11th of September 2006 03:23:22 PM
Old 09-11-2006
Data How to get the most left hand string ??

Hi,

I remember once seeing a way to get the left most string in a word.
Let's say: a="First.Second.Third" (separated by dot)

echo ${a#*.} shows --> Second.Third
echo ${a##*.} shows --> Third

How do I get the the left most string "First" Or "First.Second" ???

Tried to replace # with + , but it doesn't work.
Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
Joao.
 

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