Unix Programming - Re: anything similar to C string manipulation functions in shell

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Re: anything similar to C string manipulation functions in shell

Floyd Davidson

2004-02-17, 12:34 am

George Kooper <tentimes5@hotmail.com > wrote:
>anything similar to C string manipulation functions in shell
>scripting language

Read the shell man page section on parameter expansion.
The capabilities are fairly extensive.

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Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
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joe durusau

2004-02-17, 3:34 am

George Kooper wrote:

> anything similar to C string manipulation functions in shell
> scripting language

Not in sh. PERL has such, and there are many progs you can call
with any shell that will manipulate strings. (eg sed, awk, ...)

try
man <whatever_shell_you_use>

to see what it has.

Speaking only for myself,

Joe Durusau