On 4/3/2010 7:51 PM, John Baxter wrote:
bash: selection=${selection#/}as in (omitting the bash $ prompt, as it seems to confuse things when present) selection=/home/xx/yy selection=${selection#/} echo $selection home/xx/yy selection=${selection#/} echo $selection home/xx/yy Why? ${thing#pattern} If pattern matches the thing, delete the shortest match else do nothing. In the second instance above, there is no match, so no change. pattern is glob-like. ## is largest match. % and %% work on the right end of thing. C-like shells: I have no idea (since I hate C, I hate C-like shells).
Thanks to all for the explanations and examples. Spent years programming in Fortran and assembler but this bash stuff leaves me bewildered sometimes.
-- Thanks, Tom (retired penguin) openSuSE 11.3-M4, kde 4.4.0 FF 3.6.0
