You can use ${#<string_var>} to get the length of a string in Linux bash shell –
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## define a string variable mystring="cloudaffaire" ## print the string length echo ${#mystring} ## Returns 12 ## assign the string lenght to a variable strlenght=${#mystring} echo $strlenght ## Returns 12 |