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From: mark@ispc001.demon.co.uk (Mark Katz)
Subject: Re: What....Another question?
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In article <538d8a$64l@herald.concentric.net>
           jdespres@concentric.net "Joe Despres" writes:

>Question:  How would one delete all characters beyond the 80 character
>mark on a line using SED?  I know how to do it with "cut" & "fold".
>But I would like to do it with SED.  Can it be done with Awk as well?
>
>Thank you!!!!!.......
>
>Joe Despres  jdespres@concentric.net
>
>
In awk
 awk '{print substr($0,1,80)}' input-file > output-file

Mark
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