I wanted to use 2.6.2 Parameter Expansion to remove leading characters from a string, but was surprised to find out that "Remove Largest Prefix Pattern" doesn't automatically repeat the pattern.
x=aaaaabc
printf %s\\n "${x##a}"
This only removes the first a. Now I'm struggling to figure out how I have to write the pattern if I want to remove as many a as possible from the beginning of $x. I had no luck searching either, because many answers use bash, but I'm looking for a POSIX shell solution. Am I overlooking something obvious? Should I open a question for this?
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@jesse_b Yeah okay, but I had only posted the question after 1 hour had passed after the chat message :) So I guess that "certain amount of time" was already over