Let's say I have a word "foobar23" in a file, and I want to pull the first "f" and last "3" character out of the world, how would I accomplish that?
# cat file
foobar23
I want the output to be:
f3 (3 Replies)
Hi All,
How to remove a box like special character which appears at the end of a string/line/record. I have no clue what this box like special character is. It is transparent square like box. This appears in a .DAT file at the end of header.
I'm to compare a value in header with a parameter.... (16 Replies)
hi
I have a list of words in a text file. these words are appended by "." at their end. They look something like this.
word1.
word2.
word3.
word4.
word5.
I need to remove the last character "." from all the words. The output must look something like this.
word1
word2
word3... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to code in ksh that will remove the first character in a string variable and replace that variable without the first character?
Example:
var1=ktest1 will become var1=test1
var2=rtest2 will become var2=test2
Need help please. (10 Replies)
Hello,
The last character is a comma ,
I have tried the following:
sed -e 's/\,$//' filename-to-read
however - there are still commas at the end of each line...:confused: (5 Replies)
Hello!
Please bare with me, I'm a total newbie to scripting. Here's the sudo code of what I'm trying to do:
Get file name
Does file exist?
If true
get length of file name
get network id (this will be the last 3 numbers of the file name)
loop x 2
If... (1 Reply)
Hi there,
i need some help to remove all occurrences of a certain character at the beginning of a string.
Example: my string is 00102030 and i want to remove all zeros from beginning of string so the result is 102030 (3 Replies)
How can i remove the first and last character of strings like below:
"^^^613*"
"admt130"
"^^^613*"
"123456"
"adg8484"
"DQitYV09dh1C"
Means i wanna remove the quotes("").
Please help (17 Replies)
In bash, how can one remove the last character of a string? In perl, the chop function would remove the last character. However, I do not know how to do the same job in bash.
Many thanks in advance. (12 Replies)
I am outputting a line like this
print $2 "/" $4The last character though is a ":" and I want to remove it. Is there any neat way to remove it? Or am I forced to do something like this:
print $2 "/" substr($4, 1, length($4) - 1)Thanks. (6 Replies)
06-09-2017
