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Old 08-04-2003
remove multiple characters once
i have a variable in a bash shell script called $hostname.
$hostname will always be different except it will always start with "-s " that is a - an s and a space. so echo $hostname
will look like this:
-s somehostname.com

how can i get rid of the leading -s ? ive tried tr -d but that gets rid of every occurance of -s , and thats no good. how can iget rid of that just once ?
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Old 08-04-2003
echo $hostname|awk '{print $2}' will work
Last edited by RTM; 08-04-2003 at 02:54 PM..
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Old 08-04-2003
thanks !
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