expr
Evaluate expressions and manipulate strings. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/expr.
- Get string length:
expr length {{string}}
- Evaluate logical or math expression with an operator ('+', '-', '*', '&', '|', etc.). Special symbols should be escaped:
expr {{first_argument}} {{operator}} {{second_argument}}
- Get position of the first character in 'string' that matches 'substring':
echo $(expr index {{string}} {{substring}})
- Extract part of the string:
echo $(expr substr {{string}} {{position_to_start}} {{number_of_characters}}
- Extract part of the string which matches a regular expression:
echo $(expr {{string}} : '\({{regular_expression}}\)')
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