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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get portion of string from the end Post 302953468 by jonnyd on Friday 28th of August 2015 08:53:18 AM
Old 08-28-2015
thank guys that works.
Code:
echo "${ORACLE_SID%?}"
blt10cr

nice and simple :-)

Last edited by vbe; 08-28-2015 at 10:02 AM.. Reason: remember to use code tags next time thanks
 

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clrtoeol(3XCURSES)					  X/Open Curses Library Functions					clrtoeol(3XCURSES)

NAME
clrtoeol, wclrtoeol - clear to the end of a line SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int clrtoeol(void); int wclrtoeol(WINDOW *win); DESCRIPTION
The clrtoeol() function clears the current line from the cursor to the right margin in the stdscr window. The wclrtoeol() function per- forms the same action, but in the window specified by win instead of stdscr. The current background character (and rendition) is used to clear the screen. If the clearing action results in clearing only a portion of a multicolumn character, background characters are displayed in place of the remaining portion. PARAMETERS
win Is a pointer to the window in which to clear to the end of the line. RETURN VALUES
On success, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return FALSE. ERRORS
None. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
bkgdset(3XCURSES), clear(3XCURSES), clearok(3XCURSES), clrtobot(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 clrtoeol(3XCURSES)
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