I want to read a character and then a fixed length of string (the string is not null terminated in the file, and its length is given by the preceding character).

How can I do this in a bash script? How to define the string variable so that I can do some post-processing on it.

Great thanks!

Amanda

I want to read a character and then a fixed length of string (the string is not null terminated in the file, and its length is given by the preceding character).

How can I do this in a bash script? How to define the string variable so that I can do some post-processing on it?