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# 8  
Old 09-03-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Smiling Dragon
Is that bourne syntax?

No, it's bash or ksh93, not even POSIX.

To do the same thing in any Bourne-type shell:

Code:
case $line in
    44*) filename=`printf "%s\n" "$line" | cut -c 3-9,126-133`
         ;;
esac

Last edited by cfajohnson; 09-03-2009 at 12:28 AM..
# 9  
Old 09-03-2009
oops! sorry I let the sh's shebang, but of course it's strict bash.
# 10  
Old 09-03-2009
Thanks and very kind of you all
# 11  
Old 09-07-2009
Thanks a lot sirs, it is working well
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