bash - How to get first character of variable -


i'm trying first character of variable, i'm getting bad substitution error. can me fix it?

code is:

while ifs=$'\n' read line   if [ ! ${line:0:1} == "#"] # error on line       eval echo "$line"     eval createsymlink $line   fi done < /some/file.txt

am doing wrong or there better way of doing this?

-- edit --

as requested - here's sample input stored in /some/file.txt

$moz_home/mobile/android/chrome/content/browser.js $moz_home/mobile/android/locales/en-us/chrome/browser.properties $moz_home/mobile/android/components/contentpermissionprompt.js

to first character of variable need say:

v="hello" $ echo "${v:0:1}" h

however, code has syntax error:

[ ! ${line:0:1} == "#"] #                     ^-- missing space

so can trick:

$ a="123456" $ [ ! "${a:0:1}" == "#" ] && echo "doesnt start #" doesnt start # $ a="#123456" $ [ ! "${a:0:1}" == "#" ] && echo "doesnt start #" $

also can done this:

$ a="#123456" $ [ "$(expr substr $a 1 1)" != "#" ] && echo "does not start #" $  $ a="123456" $ [ "$(expr substr $a 1 1)" != "#" ] && echo "does not start #" not start #

update

based on update, works me:

while ifs=$'\n' read line   echo $line   if [ ! "${line:0:1}" == "#" ] # error on line       eval echo "$line"     eval createsymlink $line   fi done < file

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