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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing characters from end of $string Post 34970 by Perderabo on Monday 24th of March 2003 10:21:12 AM
Old 03-24-2003
You don't say which shell you are using. But in ksh, this is easy. If xyz is a variable with more than 88 characters, you can string the last 88 characters off with this:

typeset -L$((${#xyz} - 88)) xyz
 

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DVIHP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  DVIHP(1)

NAME

       dvihp - convert a TeX DVI file to Hewlett-Packard PCL

SYNOPSIS

       dvihp [options] dvifile[.dvi]

DESCRIPTION

       dvihp translates the given dvifile to Hewlett-Packard PCL using dvicopy(1) then $DVILJ (dvilj4 by default).

       In the absence of other options, pipe the PCL to $SPOOL (lpr by default).

OPTIONS

       Options are recognized from dvips where possible:

       -A     print odd pages

       -B     print even pages

       -d n   set debug bits to n (see documentation)

       -D n   set resolution to n

       -f     run as filter

       -l n   don't print pages after n

       -m     manual feed

       -n n   print n pages

       -O a,b set/change paper offset to a,b mm.

       -o s   output to s instead of spooling

       -p n   don't print pages before n.

       -Ps    pass directly to lpr.

       -v     verbose operation.

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       Other options are passed to the dvilj program.

BUGS

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SEE ALSO

       dvicopy(1), dvilj4(1).

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