Originally Posted by rkl1

since I dont have much experience in any thing: I will do this work in a simple but long way: so laughing is allowed looking at my code.

for file in `cat t40.txt|nawk '{print $3}'`;do
n=`echo $file|wc -C`
n=`expr $n - 1`
n1=`expr $n - 1`
echo $file|cut -c $n1-$n

I dont know why wc -C brings one more number than the real number of characters are there.

echo "this"|wc -C

this gives value 5 instead of 4.

thanks.