Hi,
Paul de Weerd schrieb:
> | > Michael wrote:
> | $ X="abcdefghi"
> | $ echo $X | cut -c 1-2
> | ab
>
> Note that it's not a complete replacement for bash's
> ${parameter:offset:length} parameter expansion implementation. If you
> give it @ or an array as a parameter, behaviour is completely
> different.Actually, the above is just what I was looking for. :-) Michael

