Den 2021-07-07 kl. 10:16 skrev Valtteri Vuorikoski:
>> 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 $str contains glob characters).
>
> Nice solution, it fixes the macro for my test file.
I should add that I forgot quotation marks around the whole thing. It
might also expand to a glob character... The correct code is
echo .ds head-str "${str#"${str%?}"}"
