1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a string "\/scratch\/databases\". I want to have a new string "\/scratch\/databases" by cutting last '\' character using shell script. I can't do this Please help me. Thanks in advance ThuongTranVN (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Does anyone know how to code in ksh that will remove the first character in a string variable and replace that variable without the first character? Example: var1=ktest1 will become var1=test1 var2=rtest2 will become var2=test2 Need help please. (10 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, The last character is a comma , I have tried the following: sed -e 's/\,$//' filename-to-read however - there are still commas at the end of each line...:confused: (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello! Please bare with me, I'm a total newbie to scripting. Here's the sudo code of what I'm trying to do: Get file name Does file exist? If true get length of file name get network id (this will be the last 3 numbers of the file name) loop x 2 If... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there, i need some help to remove all occurrences of a certain character at the beginning of a string. Example: my string is 00102030 and i want to remove all zeros from beginning of string so the result is 102030 (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

How can i remove the first and last character of strings like below: "^^^613*" "admt130" "^^^613*" "123456" "adg8484" "DQitYV09dh1C" Means i wanna remove the quotes(""). Please help (17 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

In bash, how can one remove the last character of a string? In perl, the chop function would remove the last character. However, I do not know how to do the same job in bash. Many thanks in advance. (12 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am outputting a line like this print $2 "/" $4The last character though is a ":" and I want to remove it. Is there any neat way to remove it? Or am I forced to do something like this: print $2 "/" substr($4, 1, length($4) - 1)Thanks. (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I was curious to know how to write into my shell script to remove a character. The character I want to remove is  within a .html file. (18 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

hello ! I have to remove string between a number and set of characters. For example, 35818 -stress - - -stress - - - - - - DB-3754 44412 caul kid notify DB-3747 54432 roberto -, notify DB-3725 55522 aws _ _int _ _classified 2_a _a 2_m _m 2_classified 2_search... (7 Replies)