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Shell-script: substrings

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bisente
on Febrero 16, 2008
in Command Line, English and Linuxadas
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You can work with substrings in bash using the following syntax:

${VARIABLE:START:LENGTH}

Like in:

$ A=abcdefghi
$ echo ${A:3:2}
de
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