Re: bash: how to check if first character of string is "/"?

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
  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 ...



How about using Bash substring expansion:

     if [ "x${VAR:0:1}" = "x" ] ; then ...




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