Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020423084411.00af4638@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:47:03 -0700 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com> Subject: Re: substr Cc: Jim George <jim DOT george AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <3CC553EC.4010607@elegant.nl> References: <00d701c1ea8c$d1aea810$23b5fea9 AT GEORGE DOT CO DOT UK> <E16ztmS-0000dA-00 AT barry DOT mail DOT mindspring DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Dear Elegant, Please be specific about what program implements the "expr substr" command. The phrase "the command line" is not singly defined on any Unix (or Unix-like) system extant today. In this case, it's TCSH, which is not the default Cygwin shell (BASH is). Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 05:30 2002-04-23, Gilgamesh Nootebos wrote: >Michael A Chase wrote: >>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George >><jim DOT george AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk> wrote: >> >>Can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line routine? >> >>>In this case, you probably want sed, gawk, or Perl, there is no UNIX >>>command 'substr'. > > From the commandline you can use 'expr substr <string> <begin> <length>' > >It's crude and OT but I just happened to need it today so I remembered this. > >-- >Gilgamesh Nootebos (Elegant Relational Development) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/