topic shell string parsing in Operating System - HP-UX

shell string parsing

andi_1 — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:52:21 GMT

Hi guys,

I have the following entry:
0x016000

What is easiest way to retrieve, for example, 3rd, 4th and 5th component?

Thank you!

Rodney Hills — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:56:16 GMT

chr4=`echo "0x016000" | cut -c 4`

Will put the 4th character into env variable chr4.

-- Rod Hills

S.K. Chan — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:56:53 GMT

..easiest way .. probably use cut ..

# echo 0x016000 | cut -c 3,4,5

SHABU KHAN — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 20:12:19 GMT

Hi Leon,

As mentioned by others cut works well for your need:

HOSTA:/tmp:> cat test
0x016000

HOSTA:/tmp:> cut -c3-5 test
016

-Shabu