Bash last char of a string

[chris]

Hi,

does anyone know how to get the last characters of a string?
in bash.

Thanks

[chris]

Found a resolution:

This gives the last character:

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echo "${FILENAME:$((${#str}-1)):1}"

[chris]

you can also use:

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echo ${STRING: -1}

Just remember that the last character can sometimes be a whitespace ( space, newline ...)