[Gllug] Parsing strings in a shell script

[Russell Howe]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:18:01PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
>         ARTIST=David Bowie
> dylan at scooby(1):/media/server/music/test>
> 
> but I can't work out how to strip everything except the artist name 
> (leaving just David Bowie) I figured I could use:

FOO="	ARTIST=David Bowie"
BAR="${FOO/*ARTIST=}"

echo "$BAR"

No fork() required => fast

bash-specific though (maybe ksh too?)

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