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Get the last n characters from a bash variable
To extract the last 'n' characters from a string in Bash, the most common and efficient method is using string slicing with a negative offset. Using String Slicing:
string="This is a sample string"
n=5 # Number of last characters to extract
last_n_chars="${string: -$n}"
echo "$last_n_chars"
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