Remove Leading 0′s in Bash

Posted by on Friday, March 12, 2010 · 1 Comment 

So you have a var you want to remove leading 0′s on.. well do the follwing

mzupan@mzupan-desktop:~$ var=00014
mzupan@mzupan-desktop:~$ let var=”10#$var”
mzupan@mzupan-desktop:~$ echo $var
14
mzupan@mzupan-desktop:~$

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