Quoth Aiza on Monday, 12 July 2010:
> Sorry miss send, was not done yet.
>
> Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size.
> Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g.
>
> Been trying to get this line of code to strip out just the single
> letter. But it strips the letter and every thing to the right of it.
>
> Timagesize=`echo-n "${imagesize}" | sed 's/g.*$//'`
>
> I plan to strip just the m or g if its there and the result should be
> numeric. If not numeric know invalid suffix.
>
> Need help with the sed syntax. Or if there is better way I want to learn
> it.
>
> Thanks
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