UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All,

I have a string type variable called "FULLSTR".

This variable has a value of "path=/type/source/logs".

I need to cut the characters after the character "=" to end of the string.

Example: the new variable "MATCHSTR" should have value like this...
"/type/source/logs"

So that I could use this MATCHSTR variable in my next statements.

I have this code, but, doesn't seem to be working...

#!/usr/bin/sh
FULLLEN=`echo $(#FULLSTR)`
echo 'FULLLEN-'$FULLLEN

STR1=`echo $FULLSTR | cut -f 1 -d "="`
echo 'STR1-'$STR1

LEN=`echo $(#STR1)`
echo 'LEN-'$LEN

MATCHSTR=`echo $FULLSTR | cut -c $LEN-$FULLLEN`
echo 'MATCHSTR-'$MATCHSTR

Thanks for the help,
-Jai

Try

MATCHSTR=${FULLSTR#*=}

or

MATCHSTR=`echo $FULLSTR|cut -d'=' -f2-`

Thanks Ygor, that helped.