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Count String Characters

March 3, 2021

Here’s a simple little script that displays the number of characters in a string.

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then echo 'Missing arguments'; exit 0; fi
var=$1
size=${#var}
echo $size

#!/bin/bash if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then echo 'Missing arguments'; exit 0; fi var=$1 size=${#var} echo $size

Command:

./length.sh abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

./length.sh abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Output:

26

26

Filed Under: Linux Tagged With: bash, characaters, number, string

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