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How would you get the character positions 10-20 from a text file?

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Last Update: July 27, 2008

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Submitted by: Suman Saha

cat filename.txt | cut -c 10-20

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UncaAlby

June 27, 2005 07:19:11

Suman Saha

RE: How would you get the character positions 10-20 from a text file?

cat filename.txt | cut -c 10-20

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November 04, 2005 06:59:28

Ramakrishna Choudarapu

RE: How would you get the character positions 10-20 fr...

cut -c10-20 <filename.txt>

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July 26, 2008 23:15:20

yanan58

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RE: How would you get the character positions 10-20 from a text file?

substring ${string_variable_name:starting_position:length}

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