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I would like to delete the last character of a string, I tried this little script :

#! /bin/sh 

t="lkj"
t=${t:-2}
echo $t

but it prints "lkj", what I am doing wrong? Thank you in advance!

I would like to delete the last character of a string, I tried this little script :

#! /bin/sh 

t="lkj"
t=${t:-2}
echo $t

but it prints "lkj", what I am doing wrong? Thank you in advance!

I would like to delete the last character of a string, I tried this little script :

#! /bin/sh 

t="lkj"
t=${t:-2}
echo $t

but it prints "lkj", what I am doing wrong?

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Delete the last character of a string using string manipulation in shell script

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string manipulation in shell script

I would like to delete the last character of a string, I tried this little script :

#! /bin/sh 

t="lkj"
t=${t:-2}
echo $t

but it prints "lkj", what I am doing wrong? Thank you in advance!

shell-script string