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Old 10-23-2009
Extracting the last character of a string
How to extract the last character of a string in bash?

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Suppose "abcde" is a string. i want to extract the last character i.e. "e".
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Old 10-23-2009
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Originally Posted by proactiveaditya
How to extract the last character of a string in bash?

---------- Post updated at 03:56 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:55 PM ----------

Suppose "abcde" is a string. i want to extract the last character i.e. "e".

Code:
string=abcde

printf "%s\n" "${string: -1}"

More portably:

Code:
printf "%s\n" "${string#"${string%?}"}"

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