John Ankarström <j...@ankarstrom.se> writes: > Den 2021-07-07 kl. 00:09 skrev John Ankarström: > Ah! There is a simpler solution: > > echo .ds head-str ${str#"${str%?}"} > > Now that's elegant... and POSIX-compatible. > > Note the necessary quotation marks around ${str%?} > (in case $str contains glob characters).
Nice solution, it fixes the macro for my test file. -Valtteri