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Batch Script - Strings

Bash Scripting – String

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Bash String is a data type similar to integer or boolean. It is generally used to represent text. It is a string of characters that may also contain numbers enclosed within double or single quotes.

Example: “geeksforgeeks”, “Geeks for Geeks” or “23690” are strings

Creating a String

A basic declaration and assignment of string

str1="GeeksforGeeks"  str2=geeksforgeeks

The quotes can be omitted, but there shouldn’t be any space before and after the equals operator

Example

#!/bin/bash    #Initializing the strings     string1="GeekForGeeks"  string2='Geeks for Geeks'  string3=2345656778    #Printing the strings    echo $string1  echo $string2  echo $string3

Output

Reading the string from the user

The input can be read from the user using the read command.

Example

#!/bin/bash    echo What is your name  read name  echo "Hello there, $name"

Output

Concatenation of Strings

Strings in bash can be easily concatenated by listing the strings in order.

Example

#!/bin/bash  s1="Geeks"  s2="for"  s3="Geeks"  s4=${s1}${s2}${s3};  echo ${s4};

Output

Length of the String

The length of a given string can be accessed using the # operator by placing it inside the parameter expansion (curly braces) before the variable name.

Example

#!/bin/bash  string="geeksforgeeks"  echo "The length of the string is : ${#string}"

Output

String Replacement

Parts of an existing string can be replaced using / inside the parameter expansion. The syntax is given below.

${<variable_name>/<string_to_replace>/<new_string>}

This will replace the specified string with the new string once.

Example

string="Hello, Geeks!"  echo "String before replacement ${string}"  echo "String after replacement ${string/Geeks/World}"

Output

To replace every single matched string from the existing string, two slashes are used ‘//’ after the variable name, so it becomes.

${<variable_name>//<string_to_replace>/<new_string>}

Let us replace all the instances of the word butter from the below phrase.

Betty brought a bit of butter  but the butter was bit of bitter  so she brought some better butter  to make the bitter butter better

#!/bin/bash

para=”Betty brought a bit of butter but the butter was bit of bitter so she brought some better butter to make the bitter butter better”

#This will replace every instance of butter in the phrase to BATTER

echo “${para//butter/BATTER}”

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