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Last time we saw how bash can help us in handling default values out of the box using parameter expansion. This time we will see how basic string operations (nonetheless common and useful) can also be achieved using bash.

There is many ways to do string manipulation with bash, like finding a filename extension using expr, separating the directory part from a filename using dirname and basename…. or even more sophisticated ones based on regex, sed….

Why using a sledgehammer to crack a nut when you could use bash builtin functionalities!

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Bash is a sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file.
There is much more to bash than running a sequence of commands, one of the features bundled with bash is parameter expansion.

Any shell user has most likely used shell variables, be it $1 or $myvar, to save values… but there is more to it. This tutorial will cover a subset of shell parameter expansion that can become really handy and save you a lot of time.

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