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Alright, so I know it is quite simple to print specific arguments of a line using $:
$ cat file
hello world
$ awk '{print $1}' file
hello
But what if I want to print chars 2 through 8? or 3 through 7? Is that possible with awk?
the syntax for substr() is
substr(string,start index,length)