Bash – Remove first character in string
To remove first character in a string in Bash scripting, you can use string slicing. Get the substring from second character till the end the string, as shown in the following expression.
${string:1}
Example
In the following script, we take a string in str
. We remove the first character in the string, and print the resulting string using echo.
example.sh
#!/bin/bash string="helloworld" index=5 output=${string:1} echo $output
Bash Version: GNU bash, version 5.2.15(1)-release (aarch64-apple-darwin22.1.0)
Output
sh-3.2# bash example.sh elloworld
References
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Conclusion
In this Bash Tutorial, we learned how to remove the first character in given string using string slicing.