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the 3 first letters from the name file

Hello,

Sorry but i have found the solution with the help from this Forum:

Print - "${filename%${filename#???}}"

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Your mistake with the cut command was that cut takes all lines of the input file, while you needed only file name.
You could pass the name to cut using "print" or "echo" commands:

echo file_name | cut -c 1-3

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