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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting variables in ksh Post 19845 by Jimbo on Wednesday 17th of April 2002 08:34:16 AM
Old 04-17-2002
Yep, that will delete the first 3 characters, but steve6368 was wanting to pull (retain) the first 3 characters into another variable.
Jimbo
 

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PULL-DEBIAN-DEBDIFF(1)					      General Commands Manual					    PULL-DEBIAN-DEBDIFF(1)

NAME
pull-debian-debdiff - find, download, and generate a debdiff SYNOPSIS
pull-debian-debdiff [options] <package> <version> [distance] DESCRIPTION
pull-debian-debdiff attempts to find and download a specific version of a Debian package and its immediate parent to generate a debdiff. OPTIONS
package The source package to download and diff. version The most recent of the two versions you want to diff. distance If specified (default 1), the debdiff is against that many versions previous. -h, --help Display the usage instructions and exit. -f, --fetch Simply download the specified version and exit. -d DEBIAN_MIRROR, --debian-mirror=DEBIAN_MIRROR Use the specified mirror. Should be in the form http://ftp.debian.org/debian. If the package isn't found on this mirror, pull-debian-source will fall back to the default mirror. -s DEBSEC_MIRROR, --debsec-mirror=DEBSEC_MIRROR Use the specified Debian security mirror. Should be in the form http://security.debian.org. If the package isn't found on this mirror, pull-debian-source will fall back to the default mirror. --no-conf Do not read any configuration files, or configuration from environment variables. ENVIRONMENT
All of the CONFIGURATION VARIABLES below are also supported as environment variables. Variables in the environment take precedence to those in configuration files. CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
The following variables can be set in the environment or in ubuntu-dev-tools(5) configuration files. In each case, the script-specific variable takes precedence over the package-wide variable. PULL_DEBIAN_DEBDIFF_DEBIAN_MIRROR, UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBIAN_MIRROR The default value for --debian-mirror. PULL_DEBIAN_DEBDIFF_DEBSEC_MIRROR, UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBSEC_MIRROR The default value for --debsec-mirror. SEE ALSO
debdiff(1), dget(1), pull-debian-source(1), ubuntu-dev-tools(5) AUTHORS
pull-debian-debdiff was written by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@ubuntu.com>, a clone of a tool by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>. This manual page was written by Stefano Rivera, based on the original by Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b@gmail.com>. ubuntu-dev-tools December 2010 PULL-DEBIAN-DEBDIFF(1)
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