From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Zsh <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Stripping spaces from a shell variable, portably
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:27:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031001092757.GA31207@DervishD> (raw)
Hi all :))
I need to strip leading and trailing spaces from the contents of
a shell variable, and I need to do it portably, with a construct like
${...%% } and with no loops. When I say 'portably' I mean using SuSv3
constructs, not Zsh extensions.
I've tried the obvious ${variable# } for stripping a single
space, but this needs a while loop, which I want to avoid (although
it seems to be portable):
while [ "$variable" != "${variable# }" ]
do
variable="${variable# }"
done
And the same with the '%' construct. Please note that I cannot
use '[[' for the test, since it must be portable, and this involves
exec'ing the 'test' binary for each space in the variable :((
If no solution is possible I'll use 'tr', because the shell code
must run in bash and zsh at least, but I really want it to be able to
run in any SuSv3 compliant shell.
Thanks a lot for your help :)
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
--
Linux Registered User 88736
http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/
next reply other threads:[~2003-10-01 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 9:27 DervishD [this message]
2003-10-01 9:50 ` Thomas Köhler
2003-10-01 14:00 ` DervishD
2003-10-01 15:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-01 19:49 ` DervishD
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