Re: cut -c

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Charles Menzes said:
> Is there a way to cut the back 3 characters on various strings?

Take your pick:

    rev | cut -c-3 | rev
    sed 's/^.*\(...\)$/\1/'
    perl -lpe 's/^.*(.{3})$/$1/' # The -l might not be necessary.
    perl -lne 'print substr($_, -3);'

Personally, I'd probably do the last one.

Steve
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