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2015-05-07

printf "%.2s" "hi mom" # duh!

man sh... i c dumb ppl: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1405611/extracting-first-two-characters-of-a-string-shell-scripting
... i logged in with my google account to help you... but...
"Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality answers, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site."
"You must have 50 reputation to comment"
aka: hoops!... you're the ones who are loosing!... i would help, but you don't let me :P
ahahah: shell shock"
as pessoas normais usam:
 short="`printf "%.2s" "$long"`"

... ou assim:
 short="${long#?}"; short="${long%"$short"}"

ROFL: mas todas as solucoes de merda puderam entrar...
 short=$(echo ${long} | cut -c1-2)
 short=$(echo ${long} | head -c2)
 short=$(echo ${long} | awk '{print substr ($0, 0, 2)}'
 short=$(echo ${long} | sed 's/^\(..\).*/\1/')

... anda tudo com um grave problema existencial...



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