On Jun 8, 9:59 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do a fair amount of shell scripting, but was not aware of the substring
> operator ( ${var:x:y} ). Learn something new every day!
Oops, I meant to say Korn compatible shell. That expansion (and many
other nifty ones) will work in Korn shells and Bash, which covers
pretty much every system in common use these days.