Bash substrings – just can’t figure it out…

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:31:06 -0600
"Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:07:20 +0100
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have an example here:
> > File="03. Rock Nuts.flac"
> > echo "${File##N*s}"
> > 
> > The result should be ”03. Rock .flac”, shouldn't it? Obviously not,
> > because the result is ”03. Rock Nuts.flac”, which is exactly the
> > original string.
> > So what am I missing?
> 
> Knowing little about BASH, I'm nevertheless immediately drawn to the
> fact that your example is missing the space you wish in our output.
> 
> Cybe

Just noticed that you're trying to pull out, "Nuts."
Sorry for the noise.

Cybe R. Wizard
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