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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to cut a string from a string Post 302586543 by Henryyy on Monday 2nd of January 2012 11:03:15 AM
Old 01-02-2012
how to cut a string from a string
now I have a string

.a/b/c/done

I want to get "done" from it. That is the result should be "done"

sorry for my language before.

Thanks in advance
Last edited by Henryyy; 01-02-2012 at 12:50 PM..
 

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