On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:49:08PM +1000, John Ferlito wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:36:51PM +1000, Doug Stalker wrote:
> >
> > I'm sure this is easy but U'm having a big mental blank when I try to do
> > it.
> >
> > I have a variable in a shell script (#!/bin/sh) which is a number
> > representing a month. It has a 0 in the front if it is less than ten
> > (ie: July is 07) but I need to remove that leading zero. How can I do
> > this?
>
> newmonth = `echo $oldmonth | sed -e 's/0\([1-9]\)/\1/'`
Hmmm...
newmonth = `echo $oldmonth | sed -e 's/^0//'`
:)
Ofcourse mine presumes that that's all that is in there...
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