11-22-2012
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Originally Posted by
Chubler_XL
@agama, don' think ksh supports the substring expansion and certainly bash will evaluate the length field so ${infile:0:len-4} is acceptable.
I tried in Kshell -- it needed $(( ... )) and assumed that bash required the same. My bad for not testing with bash.
Thanks.
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REPERTORY is a symbol representing a charset or 'nil'. Omitting it is the same as specifying ENCODING as REPERTORY. If it is not 'nil', the
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