Wednesday, 28 August 2013

How to check the first character in a string in unix

How to check the first character in a string in unix

I'm writing a script in unix where I have to check whether the first
character in a string is "/" and if it is, branch.
for example I have a string
/some/directory/file
I want this to return 1
and
server@10.200.200.20:/some/directory/file
this to return 0
how can I proceed to do this?

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