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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Parameter expansion not working for all strings... Post 302570178 by Corona688 on Wednesday 2nd of November 2011 02:33:12 PM

11-02-2011

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I do this to get that exact string:

Code:

STRING=$(echo " 2E 2F 4A 6F 73 C3 A9 20 47 6F 6E 7A C3 A1 6C 65 7A 20 2D 20 49 6E 20 4F 75 72 20 4E 61 74 75 72 65 2F 30 36 20 41 62 72 61 6D 2E 66 6C 61 63 0A" |
        sed 's/ /\\\\x/g' | xargs echo -e)

echo "${STRING//[^a-z]/}"
osonzleznuraturebramflac
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.7(2)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
$

It ought to substitute, I don't know why yours doesn't. Perhaps a bug, or an older shell with limited features.

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