command to cut

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hello ,

i am grepping for a variable which looks like this...

washome=/home/etc/config/was

how can i cut the the above like which removes washome=
so that i will get /home/etc/config/was

Thanks

2 
echo 'washome=/home/etc/config/was' | cut -d "=" -f2
3

Its working
Thanks....:slight_smile:

4

if you're reading that from "env"

-bash-3.2$ echo $line
washome=/home/etc/config/was
-bash-3.2$ echo ${line#*=}
/home/etc/config/was
-bash-3.2$