| 00:00.09 | bbeattie | Anyone know the correct way to get printf on shell to print the first 2 characters of contents found in 'ls'? printf "%2c\n" `ls` will only print a character, indented 2 spaces in. |
| 00:02.09 | Bradipo | %c%c |
| 00:03.45 | Bradipo | I believe there may be a way to maniplate a character array as well, but I haven't ever had the need in shell. |
| 00:05.09 | bbeattie | uu |
| 00:05.09 | bbeattie | wy |
| 00:05.09 | bbeattie | zz |
| 00:05.31 | Bradipo | Is that a success report? |
| 00:05.32 | bbeattie | that's the last of doing %c%c, it's taking a character from a line, then the second character from the next line, not 2 from the same line. |
| 00:05.51 | bbeattie | nope, no success yet |
| 00:06.04 | Bradipo | Hmm, I don't use printf in shell often enough to know. |
| 00:06.22 | Newsome | how about 'ls | cut -2' |
| 00:08.54 | bbeattie | still checking, syntax of cut -2 doesn't work |
| 00:09.07 | Newsome | er, sorry |
| 00:09.15 | Newsome | try 'ls | cut -c -2 |
| 00:10.37 | bbeattie | printf "%s\n" `ls` | cut -c-2 |
| 00:11.02 | bbeattie | ls | cut -c -2 works too |
| 00:11.03 | bbeattie | thanks |
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