[Solved] Sed is doing my head in! How do you remove the first character of a string?
Hello!
Please bare with me, I'm a total newbie to scripting. Here's the sudo code of what I'm trying to do:
Currently I have:
with the s variable being the user input which looks like "test001" or "testtwo010"
As you can see I'm having trouble with the sed that will chop of the first character.
I tried :
but that will print the last 2 characters but not chop off the first.
Ive also tried hacking as sed with
but that just gets me an error
Thanks!
Katie
---------- Post updated at 10:59 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:16 AM ----------
fixed it, Thanks, and sorry for clogging up your threads!
If anyone is interested the solution is:
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Last edited by vbe; 09-22-2010 at 07:15 AM..
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