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bug#19240: cut 8.22 adds newline


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#19240: cut 8.22 adds newline
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:39:16 -0800
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On 12/04/2014 10:41 AM, John Kendall wrote:
echo "$FILE ===========================\c"| cut -c1-30

Since you're going to have to rewrite it anyway if you want it to be portable, I suggest doing it this way:

printf '%.30s' "$FILE ==========================="

as it's a lot more efficient anyway.





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