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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Capture carriage return. Post 45093 by jayakhanna on Monday 15th of December 2003 06:16:13 AM
Old 12-15-2003
# VAR="adfadf"; LENGTH=`expr "$VAR" : '.*'`; echo $LENGTH

I doubt whether your syntax is correct, just use the above it will work correctly


If you want to get 0 for null string put VAR=""

Cheers
 

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sb2-config(1)							sb2-config man page						     sb2-config(1)

NAME
sb2-config - scratchbox2 configuration tool SYNOPSIS
sb2-config [OPTION]... [COMMAND [PARAMS]] DESCRIPTION
sb2-config is used to set and display configuration of existing targets. OPTIONS
-d default_target This option sets the default sb2 target. The name of the target will be written to your $HOME/.scratchbox2/config file. -l lists all available targets in your system. The names listed can be used as a parameter to the -d option. -h Display short help. -v Show version of this tool. -t target select target to be used with commands (below) COMMANDS
showtarget show default target. showlog show configuration log showenv show target-specific environment variables setenv VARIABLE VALUE set target-specific environment variable. The value becomes effective when sb2 is executed. clearenv VARIABLE set clearing for target-specific environment variable unsetenv VARIABLE remove target-specific environment variable EXAMPLES
$ sb2-config -d diablo41_armel This command sets your default target to be diablo41_armel. $ sb2-config -l This example lists all installed targets in your host. The names listed can be used as a parameter to the -d option. SEE ALSO
sb2(1), sb2-init(1), sb2-show(1) AUTHOR
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