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Date:      Thu, 04 Jul 2002 14:06:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "M.T." <mbsd@pacbell.net>
To:        Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net>
Cc:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shell Script gurus??
Message-ID:  <20020704140403.L333-100000@atlas.home>
In-Reply-To: <20020704132754.E21920-100000@njam.dhs.org>

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On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Viktor Lazlo wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> > Now in my script I am reading the domain name from stdin (??
> >
> > 	echo Entering domain name in MySQL DB:
> >         echo ""
> >         domain_name=
> >         echo -n Please supply the domain name to activate:
> >         read domain_name
> >
> >
> > The domain name can be domain.com or the domain.co.ke but I am interested
> > in the part before the first (.) so that I can manipulate some parameter
> > with it.
> >
> > How do I get that alone in a shell after I've read the domain name into
> > a variable??
>
> I'm sure there's much slicker ways of going about doing it but this works
> for me:

You mean something like:

    domain_name="${domain_name%%.*}"

 :-)
 /Mikko

> read var1
> var2=`echo $var1 | sed -n 's/\.com//p'`
>
> Regards,
>
> Viktor
>
>
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