Remove a character from a variable 1

[longhair]

probably simple but it escapes me now.
hpux 11.
need to remove a character from a variable in a script, don't have access to sed or awk.
basically:

cat /files/dsdcwhd.txt | while read dcoff dctty dcmnth dcday dctime
do
finger -i |grep $dcoff >> /files/dsdcwhd1.txt
done

but i need to add dctty to the grep pattern with out the leading '*' that is in the variable.
any suggestions?
thanks in advance.
regards,
longhair

 

[p5wizard]

try this: ${dctty#\*}

not sure if it works, I just read on online man page, didn't test it.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[longhair]

p5wizard,
thanks for the pointer.
dcttya=${tty#'*'}
does the trick
regards,
longhair