Extracting the last 3 chars from a string using sed


 
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Old 11-27-2003
Also..

echo abcd | awk '{print substr($0,length-2)}'

or just..

echo abcd | tail -c4

Had to check 'man ksh' for this one...

typeset -R3 Var=abcd ; echo $Var

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