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The following Bash script is failing:
DATA=fred
echo ${DATA:1:1}
I expect it to print “r”, but all I get is a “Bad substitution” error.
Is there some sort of switch I need to use to enable the variable expansion syntax?
Cheers
No, but you must make sure that it’s being run by bash and not some other shell.
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