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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extract large list of substrings Post 302233951 by dcfargo on Monday 8th of September 2008 08:33:22 PM
Old 09-08-2008
Thanks. Let me see if I understand.

The string has no space or line breaks its just millions of characters one after the other. We'll call that 'filestring'.

The numbers lists are in 'filenumbers' in the same directory.


string=$( <filestring )
while read start length
do
printf "%s\n" "${string:$start:$length}"
done < filenumbers > outfile


If that the correct command syntax?

Thanks so much.
 

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