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Re: utmac -muh error on Ubuntu
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Valtteri Vuorikoski |
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Re: utmac -muh error on Ubuntu |
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Date: |
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:16:45 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
John Ankarström <john@ankarstrom.se> writes:
> Den 2021-07-07 kl. 00:09 skrev John Ankarström:
> Ah! There is a simpler solution:
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> echo .ds head-str ${str#"${str%?}"}
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> Now that's elegant... and POSIX-compatible.
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> Note the necessary quotation marks around ${str%?}
> (in case $str contains glob characters).
Nice solution, it fixes the macro for my test file.
-Valtteri