On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Greg Olszewski wrote:
> 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.
>
If you really need not to be shell specific, you could do something like:
VAR=`echo $VAR | sed 's/^\(.*\).$/\1/'`
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