[Wylug-help] Shell scripting

[Gary Stainburn]

On Sunday 09 May 2004 10:23 pm, Nick Jeffery wrote:
> Hullo,
>
> I've a variable (from cat'ing a file) in a bash shell script.  I'd like to
> get only the first 32 characters of the file/variable on their own..
>
> I've tried:
>
> foo=`echo ${bar:32}`  but that doesn't seem to want to play ball.
>
> Anyone got an idea?  Don't want to use regexps/perl/awk if at all possible.
>
> Cheers,
> nsj.

foo=`echo $bar|cut -c1-32`

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