[CLUG] Shell script newbie

[Francis Daly]

2009/1/7 Miloska <miloska at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Jean-Pierre Thibert
> <jpthibert at eircom.net> wrote:

>> 1)I have a variable with a value between 00.00 to 100.00 (ie : 12.58)
>> I want to extract the integer. Something like X=int(MYVAR)
>> How to do that? I didn't find out after a lot of research.

> not nice:
> echo "12.34" | cut -d . -f 1

A bit nicer, I think:

x=12.58
x=${x%.*}

Check the man page for details: remove a trailing pattern match from the string.

Good luck,

f