The syntax ${varname#pattern} causes the shortest matching pattern from the beginning of the contents of varname to be removed. In this case the pattern is the string 'b=' which is removed.
If you need to be more generic, and remove the first two characters, then either of these will work:
Code:
c="${a#??}"
c="${a:2}"
The first is the same as the previous example, except the pattern is any two characters and not a specific string. The 'a:2' indicates that the contents of variable a, starting with the second position (0 based) are to be substituted.
should you need everything before the equal sign, a variable number of characters, then this will work:
Code:
c="${a#*=}"
as the pattern is any number of characters before the equal sign.
You might want to have a read through this, or some other Kshell or bash doc: man/man1/ksh.html man page
Hello Everyone ,
Iam a newbie to shell programming and iam reaching out if anyone can help in this :-
I have two files
1) Insert.txt
2) partition_list.txt
insert.txt looks like this :-
insert into emp1 partition (partition_name)
(a1,
b2,
c4,
s6,
d8)
select
a1,
b2,
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Hello.
Using a bash script , I have a variable name for the file I want to modify
FILE_TO_EDIT="/etc/my_config_file"And I have a variable name for the parameter to change
PARAMETER="fallback_node"
PARAMETER_NEW_VALUE="http://my_server_name.com/new_path"
A config file may contain :
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Hi there can anyone help me please. I want to make a program to check if the executable file specified by the user exists in the directory.
When I run this program particulary these lines of code does not work:
if ("$fi" == "$name") then where It checks whether the specified file is equal to the... (1 Reply)
Please help me, wasted hrs:wall:, to find this soulution:-
I need a command that will work on file (xml) and replace multiple occurrence (more than 2 times)
Examples
1. '==='
2. '===='
3. '======='
should be replaced by just '=='
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<string name="string2">Version 2.0</string>
<string name="string3">BP</string>
I would like to check for duplicate entries of... (11 Replies)
Hello guys,
should be a very easy questn for you:
I need to delete strings in file1 based on the list of strings in file2.
like file2:
word1_word2_
word3_word5_
word3_word4_
word6_word7_
file1:
word1_word2_otherwords..,word3_word5_others... (7 Replies)
Does anybody understand why this is not being interpreted as true.
Script:
#!/bin/bash
errored=`grep "errored" new_update_scripts.txt`
echo $errored = "errored"
if ; then
echo true
else
echo false
fi
Output:
$ UpdateScripts
errored = errored
false (7 Replies)
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I need... (1 Reply)
