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bashshellstring-length

Bash increment length of string

I just want to echo an incremented string length. For example:

STR="test"
echo ${#STR}

It prints 4, but I want to print 5.

Solution 
  • STR="test"
count=${#STR}
((count++))
echo $count

    ((count++)): How to increment a variable in bash?