how to truncate lines

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of mdm at icefloe.dartmouth.edu (Michael McDaniel):
:I am trying to write a simple shell script that will truncate lines fed
:from the standard input to 80 characters.  I only want the first 80
:characters, and I know that there is some way to get awk to do it, but I
:can't remember how to do it.

    #!/bin/awk -f
    print substr($0,1,80)

Somebody should buy that guy a manual for Christmas.

--tom
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