[Gluster-users] Tools for the admin

[Whit Blauvelt]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:11AM +0100, Dan Bretherton wrote:

> I had a closer look at this.  It is the output of gfid-mismatch
> causing the problem; paths are shown with a trailing colon as in
> GlusterFS log files.  The "cut -f1 -d:" to extract the paths
> obviously removes all the colons.  I'm sure there is an easy way to
> remove the trailing ':' from filenames but I can't think of one off
> hand (and it is 3:30AM).

Something along the lines of "sed 's/.$//", as in:

 	dog="doggy:"; echo $dog | sed 's/.$//'

That would remove any last character. To just get ":":

	dog="doggy:"; echo $dog | sed 's/:$//'

(No, I didn't know that. I googled.)

Whit