simple substring?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Anyone has an easy approach on the below please? :slight_smile:
I want the output of my "ls" command to output only the 5th-9th characters only.

For example:
ls FILE*.txt
==>>
FILEXINOO123.txt
FILEBASHY007.txt
FILEPERLA456.txt
FILEAWKER003.txt
FILESMILE001.txt

I want the output of my "ls" command in a single like this:
XINOO,BASHY,PERLA,AWKER,SMILE

Thank you! :slight_smile:

2

You can use cut with the -c option. Read the man page.

Regards