Help with scripts

[Ralf Christian Strandell]

Hello!

How do I remove the last character of a string
stored in an environmental variable?

ie. if $VAR=abcd then how do I get $VAR=abc ?

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I need this to keep track of position in
a menu tree.

Ralf

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