Substring Extraction

[romanart]

Hi,

I'm trying to use ${VAR:0:4} substring extraction described here:

tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html

and it works perfectly if i issue a command in bash.

But when i put it in a script file and run it, bash gives me "bad substitution" error.

Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thanks

[nmset]

You may pecise things with sufficient portion of your code to generate the error.

[romanart]

sorry, didn't get that

[JohnGraham]

sorry, didn't get that

He meant that he wanted you to post code we could run that generates the error, so we can tell you what's going wrong.

However, I reckon the first like of your script is:

#!/bin/sh

If so, change that to:

#!/bin/bash

and all should be dandy.

[romanart]

that was it. Thanks a lot!

[nmset]

JohnGraham, I'm amazed, you see clearly in the dark !