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how to cut last 4 characters in file using shell script
line="1234567890abcd" This command will print out 1234567890 echo $line | awk '{print substr($0,1, length($0)-4)}' This command will print out 0abcd echo $line | awk '{print substr($0,length($0)-4)}' Note: substr( String, M, [ N ] ) Returns a substring with the number of characters...- emike
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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how to cut last 4 characters in file using shell script
Luckily my file won't contain any more than one dot. I found some code involving awk, substr and length which I will have a look at and see if I can get it to work. I'm from a VMS/DCL background and just starting in Unix Shell scripting. This sort of think is really easy in VMS/DCL.- emike
- Post #6
- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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how to cut last 4 characters in file using shell script
wsFilePath="/myfile/tmp/ParList.dat" wsFile=`basename $wsFilePath| cut -d. -f1` this worked for me. baseline returns the filename from the full filename and path. This is then piped through cut which splits the string by delimited . (That's the -d.) Field 1 is returned which is the filename...- emike
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
