02-01-2012
Doesnt remove the last character
Quote:
[root@server1 ~]# find /test/ -name "x*.cfg"|while read i; do grep "reg.1.random" $i|awk -F"=" '{print $2}'; done
"^^^613*"
"admt130"
"^^^613*"
"123456"
"adg8484"
"DQitYV09dh1C"
Quote:
[root@server1 ~]# find /test/ -name "x*.cfg"|while read i; do grep "reg.1.random" $i|awk -F"=" '{print $2}'|sed 's/.\(.*\)./\1/'; done
^^^613*"
admt130"
^^^613*"
123456"
adg8484"
DQitYV09dh1C"
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INDEX(3) Linux Programmer's Manual INDEX(3)
NAME
index, rindex - locate character in string
SYNOPSIS
#include <strings.h>
char *index(const char *s, int c);
char *rindex(const char *s, int c);
DESCRIPTION
The index() function returns a pointer to the first occurrence of the character c in the string s.
The rindex() function returns a pointer to the last occurrence of the character c in the string s.
The terminating NULL character is considered to be a part of the strings.
RETURN VALUE
The index() and rindex() functions return a pointer to the matched character or NULL if the character is not found.
CONFORMING TO
BSD 4.3
SEE ALSO
memchr(3), strchr(3), strpbrk(3), strrchr(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), strtok(3)
GNU
1993-04-12 INDEX(3)