Zac Slade wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In a shellp script, let
> > STRING="a.txt b.txt c.txt"
> > And I want to delete a sub-string from $STRING, for example
> > b.txt, and then we got
> > $STRING is "a.txt c.txt"
>
> So for what you want just do:
> STRING="a.txt b.txt c.txt"
> ${STRING:-b.txt}
That doesn't work. This does:
$ STRING="a.txt b.txt c.txt"
$ REMOVE="b.txt"
$ echo ${STRING/$REMOVE/}
a.txt c.txt
Benno
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