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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: how to truncate lines
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.014649.133@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 19 Feb 91 01:46:49 GMT
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In article <1991Feb18.205238.14418@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> mdm@icefloe.dartmouth.edu (Michael McDaniel) writes:
>I am trying to write a simple shell script that will truncate lines fed
>from the standard input to 80 characters.  I only want the first 80

cat file.with.really.long.lines | cut -c1-80 > file.with.shorter.lines

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