On Monday 21 July 2008, Anthony Parks wrote: > ok so i at least got somewhere. i found out how to operate on a directory, > but first im trying to strip all the whitespace and trailing backslash so i > can i have a neat and tidy name to feed into the output argument of k9copy. > pasted here: > http://pastebin.com/d4932b197
For stripping characters, one method is to use the 'tr' command. And overall, the best guide for writing Bash scripts that I know of is "The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide", which you can find either online or in the 'abs-guide' package if you run a Debian-like system. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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