Re: [SLUG] Easy shell scripting question

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> I'm not sure how important portability is here, but if you are on a
> linux system then /bin/sh is linked to /bin/bash. In bash you can do
> this as:

In fact this is required by SuS so it is portable.

> 	oldmonth=3D'07'
> 	echo ${oldmonth#'0'}
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