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In the Bourne shell, very little string manipulation was possible without resorting to external commands. Strings could be concatenated by juxtaposition, they could be split by changing the value of IFS, and they could be searched with case, but anything else required an external command.
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© 2015 Chris F. A. Johnson and Jayant Varma
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Johnson, C.F.A., Varma, J. (2015). String Manipulation. In: Pro Bash Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0121-3_7
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