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Subject: Re: Shell scripting question
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On 9/12/05, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:
> How can I strip the leading character from the string so that I can test =
to
> see if it's zero?

This'll strip the 0, while leaving other numbers intact:

$ X=3D09
$ echo ${X#0}
9