It would be a lot easier to do it with gawk or perl.
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Would it be possible in a Bash script to munge a Long File Name to the
older DOS 8.3 format?

In my case I need the first 8 characters and the last 4 (.xxx) ... the
resulting string would then be used as an argument for another command.
:)

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