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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Command output string manipulation possible in one line? Post 302545021 by Ryan. on Friday 5th of August 2011 09:56:23 PM
Old 08-05-2011
Command output string manipulation possible in one line?

This has been bothering me for 3 days.

$> hostname
cepsun64amd

And I just want "cepsun",

I would normally do h=`hostname`; ${h%%64*}

But I am looking for a one-liner just for my own knowledge, because if there is a way to do this, I should know it by now.

Anyway, so is this possible?

P.S. I realize there are other ways to do this without using ${%%}, but I have ran into this problem like 4 times within the past few days where it would be really convenient and clean to just use ${VAR%%PATTERN}.

Thanks
 

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