On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 07:48:38PM +0200, Ralf Christian Strandell wrote:
> 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 $VAR=abc ?
>
> ----------
> I need this to keep track of position in
> a menu tree.
>
> Ralf
VAR=${VAR:0:${#VAR}-1}
works in bash 2.03.0(1)
this is shell specific however. You should check out the man page
for whatever shell you are using, that's where I figured this out.
enjoy
greg
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