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From: drears@ardec.arpa (Dennis G. Rears (FSAC))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  Picking a character from a word
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Date: 23 Apr 88 17:26:54 GMT
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Barsam Marasli  writes:

->I have a csh question.
->I would like to have a script that will echo, say the 4th character
->of an arguement. I came up with the following:
->
->set word=`echo $1 | od -c` ; echo $word[5]
->
->which seems to do the job but somehow I feel like there are
->more elegant ways of doing this. Please reply by e-mail or
->post. Also what's an alternative in sh? Thanx.
->
    If all you want is the fourth character of a word echod out try:

echo $1|cut -c4

This works in both the csh and the bourne shell.

...dennis
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