Hi, Paul de Weerd schrieb: > | > Michael wrote: > | $ X="abcdefghi" > | $ echo $X | cut -c 1-2 > | ab > > Note that it's not a complete replacement for bash's > ${parameter:offset:length} parameter expansion implementation. If you > give it @ or an array as a parameter, behaviour is completely > different.
Actually, the above is just what I was looking for. :-) Michael