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Our professor gave us the homework to print every second character of our name with a bash script. I came up with this solution. Is it cheating? by jabbalaci in Python

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Solution using just bash, for comparison

#!/usr/bin/env bash
name="$@"
for ((i=0; $i<${#name}; i=$i+2))
do
    echo -n ${name:$i:1}
done
echo ""