On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:18:36 +0000
Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Please help me with these basic scripting questions. How do you tell the
> path of the current directory?
Assuming you mean Bash scripting....
# echo $PWD
> Is there an equivalent to the Left$ & 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?
# a="ABCDEF"
# echo ${a::2}
AB
# echo ${a:${#a}-2}
EF
Cheers,
Sean
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