Cut command

[IMAUser]

I intend to write a script something like this:

rundate=20030623

EVAL_YEAR=`cut -c1-4 $rundate`
EVAL_MMDD=`cut -c5-8 $rundate`

echo "rundate $rundate"
echo "EVAL_YEAR $EVAL_YEAR"
echo "EVAL_MMDD $EVAL_MMDD"

I need the year and the monthdate in two different variables, so was trying to use cut.

but cut seems to think 20030623 is a file and not a string of text chars.

Is there a better way of acheving the result.

Thanx

 

[vgersh99]

EVAL_YEAR=`echo ${rundate} | cut -c1-4`

vlad
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