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I'm glad it is working for you.

Note, however, that this is one of those broken shell scripts that can fail miserably if the directory name assigned to where or the string assigned to what...

Yes. Having mismatched quotes will cause the shell to give you a secondary prompt and then it will wait for you to type in the rest of the string and its terminating quote.

What supplying a bunch of big long paths with corresponding sample ln commands that you want to produce from those big long paths would do is give us some actual sample data that we could use to make...

You have at least three people who have responded to your question asking for a very easy to provide sample of the pathnames you're trying to process and the corresponding ln commands you hope to...

That is good to know and will help us give you suggestions that will work in your environment IF you give us some representative sample data to use to verify that we understand what you're trying to...

With what you have shown us there is little hope of us being able to help you.

You seem to be saying that you want to extract 14 characters starting in position 53 from the 11 character string...