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I found that this works


bankid=$1
stmttype=$2
jdd=`date '+%j'`

stid=$(expr substr $2 1 1)

echo "ID: $stid"

I see a millioin ways to do this with echo, but what I wan to do is assign a variable the "nth" character of an incoming parameter to a ksh script.

$1 will be "pia"

I need to assign the first...

I want to change the ownership of a directory ONLY.

my id

id1 owns the files under the /mypath/bin

but /mypath/bin is owned by id2

If i log into id2

I can't do

chown id1...

Thanks, that's what I needed to know.