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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Metacharacters analysis Post 302287277 by gehlnar on Friday 13th of February 2009 06:56:08 AM
Old 02-13-2009
Zaxxon,

Thanks for the link. Got some idea on it that here some string replacement operation(with longest occurance) is perfomed . But can you tell me how to read this. I mean what is the string in this statement?

a_PROCESS=${0##*/}
 

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dh_installdeb - install files into the DEBIAN directory SYNOPSIS
dh_installdeb [debhelperoptions] DESCRIPTION
dh_installdeb is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files into the DEBIAN directories in package build directories with the correct permissions. FILES
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