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# 1  
Old 11-14-2015
Concat name
Hi,
I need help to combine the first 7 character of firstname if it is longer than 7and combine with the first character of lastname.

ex: username lastname => usernaml
user lastname => userl

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 11-14-2015
What operating system are you using?

What shell are you using?

Where are these names? (Shell variables, files, a database, strings in a C program, ...?)

What do you want to do with the combined names? (Store them in a shell variable, print them to standard output, ... ... ...?)

What have you tried?
# 3  
Old 11-14-2015
Thank you very much for quick respond.
I am using solaris 10 either ksh or bsh shell will work.
I am not sure how to start with it.
# 4  
Old 11-14-2015
Consider:

Code:
echo "${firstname} ${lastname}" | sed -n 's/^\([^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ]\)[^ ]* \(.\).*/\1\2/p'

# 5  
Old 11-14-2015
Since you did not answer the questions where are these names and what do you want to do with the combined names, the following is just an illustration of what it can be done.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

name="user"
family_name="lastname"
echo ${name:0:7}${family_name:0:1}
name="username"
echo ${name:0:7}${family_name:0:1}

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Old 11-14-2015
Consider also:
Code:
username=`echo "${firstname} ${lastname}" | sed -n -e 's/^\([^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ]\)[^ ]* \(.\).*/\1\2 /' -e 's/^\([^ ][^ ]*\) .*/\1/p'`

# 7  
Old 11-15-2015
by awk

echo "user lastname" | awk ' { print substr ($1,1,7) substr($2,1,1) } '
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