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X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Joe Buehler <jbuehler AT hekimian DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts
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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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