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From: luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu (Andru Luvisi)
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Subject: Re: What....Another question?
Date: 6 Oct 1996 20:37:51 GMT
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Joe Despres (jdespres@concentric.net) wrote:
: 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

sed -e 's/\(.\{80\}\).*/\1/'

awk '{print substr($0,1,80);}'

andru