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oy. darn 1-index. Thanks, Don.

but yes, everything outputted by awk goes to cut. cut doesn't have logic like awk does. But awk can determine if it's an odd line and also skip the first 5...

Don't use cut. awk equivalent is substr($0,5,595)

try:

awk '!(NR%2) { print substr($0,5,595); next; } 1' FWD-1.fas