On Saturday 26 November 2005 11:16 am, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > does somebody know why I keep losing the first character of the > third resulting string? > > Sincerely,
<snip> > echo -n "3 ===";echo -n ${MD5PW} | tr ' ' '\n' | while read char ; do awk \ > '{printf("%c",$char)}' ; done ; echo "===" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp Try to replace "awk" with "echo $char | awk". I know that doesn't answer your question. David <snip> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]