On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 06:39:18 -0600, Stan Marsh wrote: > Note, incidentally, that it is not strictly true that a negative offset has > to be preceded by a space. A zero will work as well. And I think that is > clearer. I.e., instead of: > > # Print the last 2 characters of $HOME > $ echo ${HOME: -2} > > You can do: > > $ echo ${HOME:0-2}
Or ${HOME:(-2)} if you like.