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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: how to truncate lines
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Date: 19 Feb 91 02:30:29 GMT
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From the keyboard of mdm@icefloe.dartmouth.edu (Michael McDaniel):
: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
:characters, and I know that there is some way to get awk to do it, but I
:can't remember how to do it.

    #!/bin/awk -f
    print substr($0,1,80)

Somebody should buy that guy a manual for Christmas.

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
 "All things are possible, but not all expedient."  (in life, UNIX, and perl)