On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, CaT wrote:
> 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//'`
or how about using Arithmetic Expansion:
% oldmonth='07'
% echo $oldmonth
07
% echo $((oldmonth))
7
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