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Hi everybody, I have a text file with 3.5 mil lines. Each line has 100 characters (blanks, upper case numbers etc...) I would like to remove the first 50 characters of each line and the last 43 characters. that would leave the middle 7 characters. Or on the other had to pick characters 50-57 of each line and output it to a file. There is no real pattern to match here except that each line has 100 characters. Can it be done via sed? Regards Nick

Name: Jim Boothe
Date: January 20, 2005 at 16:24:12 Pacific

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It would be a bit easier with cut: cut -c50-57 filein > fileout

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Dooh.. I was looking for something complicated but the cut command never crossed my mind. Much appreciated Jim Regards Nick

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