dd if=test.txt bs=1 skip=99 count=7 2>/dev/null; echo -e You can skip the '2>/dev/null' if you don't mind seeing the "7+0 records out" appended to your data
If you are not outputting to an interactive prompt, (like you are capturing the result of this into a variable, then remove the 'echo -e' it's just to make it look better at the prompt. (Same with the '2>/dev/null') On 8/29/2008, "Chris Penn" <[email protected]> wrote: >Rewording the question. I need characters from 100-106, so now I need >to cut everything from 107 on from each line. >any ideas? > >Chris... > >On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: >> K, I figured out how to do this with cut. >> cut -b 1-2 --complement file >> >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I have a file, I want to create a new file that goes the my file and >>> delete the first 99 characters, including spaces, from each line. >>> How do I do this? >>> >>> Chris... >>> -- >>> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to >>> be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." >>> -Roger Penrose >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to >> be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." >> -Roger Penrose >> > > > >-- >"As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to >be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose >_______________________________________________ >LinuxUsers mailing list >[email protected] >http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
