-----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, April 05, 2002 4:39 PM Subject: parsing
>I have a string like postfix/smtpd[25532]: I want to cut it off at the >[ so I end up with postfix/smtpd > >how do i do it? >-- >Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a fixed length string try echo postfix/smtpd[25532] | cut -c 1-13 No guarentees, I haven't had a change to test it. Wayne
