From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Stripping spaces from a shell variable, portably
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:14:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031001151452.ZM21074@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031001092757.GA31207@DervishD>
On Oct 1, 11:27am, DervishD wrote:
}
} I need to strip leading and trailing spaces from the contents of
} a shell variable, and I need to do it [...] using SuSv3
} constructs, not Zsh extensions.
What about:
tmp="${variable##*[^ ]}"
variable="${variable%${tmp}}"
tmp="${variable%%[^ ]*}"
variable="${variable#${tmp}}"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-01 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 9:27 DervishD
2003-10-01 9:50 ` Thomas Köhler
2003-10-01 14:00 ` DervishD
2003-10-01 15:14 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2003-10-01 19:49 ` DervishD
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