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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete character on specific position Post 302916041 by pilnet101 on Saturday 6th of September 2014 08:59:45 AM
Old 09-06-2014
If you are using bash, there is no need to call any external tools to perform this. You can use parameter expansion alone as per below:

Code:
# Example line variable
line="this is an example line of text"

# Now lets delete 8 characters after the 10th character (deleting the word example)
echo ${line/${line:10:8}}

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	      display line numbers

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       -t, --tabs
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