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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How the below command works? Post 302841795 by Just Ice on Thursday 8th of August 2013 03:26:42 AM
Old 08-08-2013
# - remove prefix pattern
% - remove suffix pattern

see discussion on parameter expansion in man bash or man ksh for more info ...
 

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