Getting at the first char of a string in Bourne shell
Ken Braithwaite
ken at images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM
Fri Sep 28 07:09:01 AEST 1990
I am trying to peel off one at a time the letters from a variable
in the Bourne shell, ie from Bourne get B and ourne.
How can I do this?
Thanks in advance.
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