<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" target="_blank">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br> I'm using a shell script and the sed option is what I'm pursuing at the moment.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br>out=$(md5sum direct.tar.bz2)<br>echo ${out% *}<br><br>That seems like it may be helpful, but I don't understand <br>what the % and * are doing.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Brian Wood<br>
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