[plug] strncmp in shell

[Russell Steicke]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:53:46PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:18, Russell Steicke wrote:
> <snip>
> > I've never used these things in anger, but know they exist.  You might
> > also try the ${FOO#bar} construct.
> 
> btw: that stuff is explained in the man bash page under: Parameter
> Expansion as I once wrote:
> 
> http://www.cantech.net.au/plug/2003-07/msg00997.html

I think that searching the man page is a given, for many members of the
list.  We can probably guess which list members.

However, knowing what to search when the syntax is as weird as that...




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Russell Steicke

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