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Old 02-12-2008
Question changing text
i all,

I thought I would restructure my question.

Is there a way you can get rid of characters in a line if you know what number they are.

eg,

if this was a line

you could see there were 18 characters including spaces. Could I delete characters 4,5,6 and 7 to remove the word this.

Any help much appreciated.

Jeremy
# 2  
Old 02-13-2008
sed
Hi,

Try this one.

Code:
echo "if this was a line" | sed 's/\(.\{3\}\)\(.\{4\}\)/\1/'

# 3  
Old 02-13-2008
Code:
echo "if this was a line" | sed -e "s/^\(...\)..../\1/g"

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