Shell scripting is part of my day today life job. Sometime you just need to cut or grab first few characters of a string. For example, consider following string I am using in a script:
IP=”192.168.1.5”
CONF=”something”
I just need to grab network id i.e. 192.168.1 of a string $IP
I can write out
$ test=${IP:0:9}
$ echo $test
It took me more than an hour to find out solution to this tiny problem. BASH man page Parameter Expansion has lots of information. Make sure you read it.
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dude,
you need to use either CUT or some other mechanism.
since your script will need tweaking to handle Network IP like
192.168.128.1
use AWK/GAWK/CUT to split the network address into four parts using “.” as operator.
and then concatenate and use first three.
hi,
it can be written in other ways
$ echo $IP | cut -f1-3 -d”.”
this works fine…