Re: Bash substrings: wish for support for negative length (read till n from end)

[Jan Schampera]

Jan Schampera wrote:
> Richard Neill wrote:
> 
>> $ echo ${stringZ:2: -1}              #Wish: start at 2, read till
>> ERROR                                #1 before the end. i.e.
>>                              # cde
>>
>> $ echo ${stringZ: -3: -1}    #Wish: start 3 back, read till
>> ERROR                                #1 before the end. i.e.
> 
> Use (-1), i.e.
> 
> $ echo ${stringZ:2:(-1)}
> 
> See also
> http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/syntax/pe#substring_expansion (at
> bottom of the section).
> 
> J.

My bad - it's too early in the morning - forget about that :)

I didn't read carefully.

J.