[ale] Another question

[Warren Myers]

you can use cut:
cat <sometext> | cut -b1-27

WMM

On 7/26/07, Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> How does one extract the first 27 characters from a line of text?
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> Thanks,
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> Terry Bailey
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