bash: how to check if first character of string is "/"?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Mon Oct 8 06:23:09 UTC 2007
it's late so i'm sure i'm just being dense in not knowing this, but
is there a simpler way to check if the first character of a string is
a "/" rather than the cumbersome:
if [ "x${VAR##/*}" = "x" ] ; then ...
surely there must be *something* that doesn't look quite so grotesque.
rday
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