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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting substr() thru awk Korn Shell Script Post 302161177 by qneill on Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 10:31:11 PM
Old 01-23-2008
I don't understand your question

Are you copying a file named "XXXX1234.ABCDEF" to "XXX1234"? (#1)

Or are you transforming one file to another and transforming the contents from "XXXX1234.ABCDEF" to "XXX1234"? (#2)

And did you mean to have 4 X's in the first and 3 in the second?

If #2 above, must you use korn/awk? Any of python/ruby/perl/sed would do the job as well.
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