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Re: Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Joe Buehler <jbuehler at hekimian dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Joe Buehler wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > + WFILE=`echo $FILE | sed 's/^\(.\{0,8\}\).*/\1/'`
>
> If you think that inelegant, try using this:
>
> expr substr "$FILE" 1 8
>
> Joe Buehler
Well, it's certainly more readable (especially to someone who knows of the
existence of 'substr' :-D). Thanks. I'll include it in the next
version...
Igor
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