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How do I strip trailing spaces from a variable?
I should have added this earlier: the value passed to the script is uppercase. I need to convert it to lowercase and append the directory in which the file is located: Example filen = ${1} results in PR197-123.CSV. I need it to read 'pr197-123.csv. Additionally, the file is to fetched from...- maalim
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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How do I strip trailing spaces from a variable?
I am accepting values for a variable outside of the script into an input field with fixed length. Since the value could have any length (max the input field length), I need a way of stripping trailing spaces if any, within the unix script. Here's how I pass the value from the form to the...- maalim
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
