Retrieve first 30 characters

[dmjoen]

Hi,

I'm looking for a method to retrieve the first 30 characters from every line in a file. I'm guessing maybe sed could accomplish this, but I'm taking the easy route and asking you the experts. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[elgrandeperro]

cut -c1-30 FILENAME

 

[feherke]

Hi

Of course, is better to do as elgrandeperro suggested. I post this just to confirm that you guessed correctly, it can also be solved with [tt]sed[/tt] :

sed 's/\(.\{30\}\).*/\1/' FILENAME

Tested with GNU [tt]sed[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[dmjoen]

Thanks for the replys!