Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:38:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell Script gurus?? Message-ID: <20020704132754.E21920-100000@njam.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20020704172903.GF56027@ns2.wananchi.com>
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Now in my script I am reading the domain name from stdin (?? > > echo Entering domain name in MySQL DB: > echo "" > domain_name= > echo -n Please supply the domain name to activate: > read domain_name > > > The domain name can be domain.com or the domain.co.ke but I am interested > in the part before the first (.) so that I can manipulate some parameter > with it. > > How do I get that alone in a shell after I've read the domain name into > a variable?? I'm sure there's much slicker ways of going about doing it but this works for me: read var1 var2=`echo $var1 | sed -n 's/\.com//p'` Regards, Viktor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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