On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > it's late so i'm sure i'm just being dense in not knowing this, but
> > is there a simpler way to check if the first character of a string is
> > a "/" rather than the cumbersome:
> >
> > if [ "x${VAR##/*}" = "x" ] ; then ...
> >
> > surely there must be *something* that doesn't look quite so grotesque.
>
> How about
>
> if [ "${VAR:0:1}" = "/" ] ; then
>
> -Andy
yes, that's a definite improvement. and i just happened across a
2-page bash reference sheet here:
http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/bashreferencecard.pdf
rday
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