On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm using a shell script and the sed option is what I'm pursuing at the > moment. > > out=$(md5sum direct.tar.bz2) echo ${out% *} That seems like it may be helpful, but I don't understand what the % and * are doing. -- Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120715/3870dca5/attachment.html>