[SOLVED] How to cut and display first 250 chars from some file?

[jakonj]

example: i created one file in ~/ named text (so ~/text).
Q: How can i cut first 250 chars from ~/text and display them in terminal using
cut?

tnx

[NoReflex]

I don't really understand your question. You want to create a program that does this? If yes you can use "fread". You can find more information here :
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/c...dio/fread.html
If you want to use bash for this you can use read and then echo.
Hope this helps.

Best wishes,
NoReflex

[Pro-reason]

example: i created one file in ~/ named text (so ~/text).
Q: How can i cut first 250 chars from ~/text and display them in terminal using
cut?

tnx

I believe that “cut” only works on lines. For multi-line files, something else will be required, perhaps “gawk”.

[ghostdog74]

example: i created one file in ~/ named text (so ~/text).
Q: How can i cut first 250 chars from ~/text and display them in terminal using
cut?

tnx

if you want to cut 250 chars from every line

awk '{print substr($0,1,250)}' file
cut -b1-250 file

if you want to cut only the first 250 and ignore the rest of the lines

head -1 file | cut -b1-250

[mali2297]

example: i created one file in ~/ named text (so ~/text).
Q: How can i cut first 250 chars from ~/text and display them in terminal using
cut?

tnx

Use your head.

head -c 250 ~/text

[jakonj]

Use your head.

head -c 250 ~/text

This works. Arigato for help