On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 19:18, Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq wrote: > Please help me with these basic scripting questions.
In which language, do you plan to program? > How do you tell the path > of the current directory? in the bash it is pwd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> pwd /home/kroll > Is there an equivalent to the Left$ & Right$ > functions found in BASIC in Linux scripting? What I mean is how do you > extract a given number of characters from the left or right of a string? Most of the time I use perl for such jobs. But it might be possible to use grep too. Have a look for substring perldoc -f substr should give you an impression how to get such results in perl. HTH Volker -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
