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Old 10-25-2010
Adding semicolons
Lets say I wanted to add a ; before the last 6 characters of my variable how would I do this?
# 2  
Old 10-25-2010
Code:
$ v=abcdefghy
$ echo "${v%??????};${v#${v%??????}}"
abc;defghy

# 3  
Old 10-25-2010
Or
Code:
$ v=abcdefghy
$ echo "${v:0:${#v}-6};${v:${#v}-6}"
abc;defghy

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