How to manipulate a variable name in Bash?

Question

I have a variable name in Bash as:

var=(any_word)_SuSE_11_design_guides

I want to manipulate the name such that I can have:

x=$(echo "$var" | some operation)

echo $x

SuSE_11_design_guides

Basically I want to remove every character behind first

_

when detected. How to achieve this?

Answer 1

I think you meant retain Everything behind first _ , which can be achieved using parameter-expansion.

string="(anyword)_SuSE_11_design_guides"
printf "%s\n" "${string#*_}"
SuSE_11_design_guides

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