cut command

aries · January 10, 2002, 9:55am

I need to use the cut command with a variable.I have to select a few characters so I tried cut -c30-42 but how do I join it with variable x.

Thanks

Cameron · January 10, 2002, 10:07am

x="Where ... "
x=$x`echo "Hello There" | cut -c7-11`

That should do it