Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Roberto Lumbreras <rover@lander.es> wrote:
> I use a lot bash substitutions like this...

> bash-2.01$ blah="psee:jjkkuu"; echo ${blah/*:/}
> jjkkuu
> bash-2.01$

> I don't know how to do that in sh without awk, cut or sed. Ideas? ;-)

Try

blah="psee:jjkkuu"; echo ${blah##*:}

which is POSIX.

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