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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Variable of Content From Part of Other File Post 302395279 by royarellano on Monday 15th of February 2010 02:59:41 PM
Old 02-15-2010
Sweet, I tried this:

var1=`grep "^1" testmsg.txt`;

and it worked. But it added the leading number 1 (2, 3, so-on). If I remove the line numbering then it doesn't return the line. So I assume I'd have to truncate that line number and the space after the line number. Sorry I'm still a newbie, so how would I add the truncate in the same call?

v/r
Roy

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Anyone?

How to take out the first two characters (spaces) or whatever from a string?

In this case the line looks like this: 1 text text text text;
when I grep 1 I don't want the 1 or the space after it, I just want to echo text text text.

Sorry for such a novice quetion. I did try searching but it pulls ways of doing it with slashes and the trailing part of a string.
 

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