Comments on: Bash String Manipulation Examples – Length, Substring, Find and Replace

By: Tahir

Tahir — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:51:34 +0000

Thanks a lot !!

By: Bhaskar

Bhaskar — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:06:02 +0000

Thanks a lot for scripts saved my day

By: Mukesh Kumar Bhansali

Mukesh Kumar Bhansali — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:51:53 +0000

Very Good Article such that I saved its URL for future refrences if I need & Forget.

By: smikler

smikler — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:28:36 +0000

Thanks a lot for script!

By: philluder

philluder — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:05:30 +0000

If you use bash 4.x you can source the oobash. A string lib written in bash with oo-style:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oobash/

String is the constructor function:

String a abcda

a.indexOf a

a.lastIndexOf a

a.indexOf da

There are many “methods” more to work with strings in your scripts:

-base64Decode -base64Encode -capitalize -center
-charAt -concat -contains -count
-endsWith -equals -equalsIgnoreCase -reverse
-hashCode -indexOf -isAlnum -isAlpha
-isAscii -isDigit -isEmpty -isHexDigit
-isLowerCase -isSpace -isPrintable -isUpperCase
-isVisible -lastIndexOf -length -matches
-replaceAll -replaceFirst -startsWith -substring
-swapCase -toLowerCase -toString -toUpperCase
-trim -zfill

By: Kafi

Kafi — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:19:12 +0000

Thanks man

By: Osborn

Osborn — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:51:03 +0000

This is really helpful for me. Great!

By: roko

roko — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:11:47 +0000

great! thanks a lot for all theses tricks and explanations !

By: balmar

balmar — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:52:23 +0000

This is incredibly useful, thanks! You didn’t close the braces at “Replace beginning and end”, and in Example 3 the echo doesn’t contain “After deletion of shortest match from front/back:”.