26.06 Mac in the Shell: bash String Operations

by Edward Marczak
Jun, 2010 Issue

Article Synopsis

At the end of last month's column I promised more bash tips and ticks this month. That's right: ticks. If I can have the latitude to define 'ticks' as, "a little used shall convention due to the nervous tick it induces," I think I can make that typo work retroactively. The bash shell has support for some of the same string operations that other languages do, without the need to call some non-native shell routine. This month, I'll introduce bash's string operators and examples of how to use them.

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