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From: kutz@bgsuvax.UUCP (Kenneth Kutz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Picking a character from a word
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Date: 25 Apr 88 01:17:46 GMT
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In article <578@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>, barsam@eros.ame.arizona.edu (Barsam Marasli) writes:
> 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.

Use 'cut' if you have it.

[echo "stuff" | cut -c3] --> outputs 'u'
         
similarly

[echo "stuff" | cut -c1] --> outputs 's'


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