From 0231552c4e66dd802008927104c32275d7daaa99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Nguyen <pedantic@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:18:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use bash substring rather than cut

---
 gitstatus.sh | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitstatus.sh b/gitstatus.sh
index dbc0bc9..234926d 100755
--- a/gitstatus.sh
+++ b/gitstatus.sh
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ elif [[ "$branch" == *"no branch"* ]]; then
 else
   IFS="[]" read -ra remote_line <<< "${line[3]}"
   if [[ "${remote_line[1]}" == *ahead* ]]; then
-    num_ahead=`echo "${remote_line[1]}" | cut -c 7-`
+    num_ahead=${remote_line[1]:6}
     remote="${remote}_AHEAD_${num_ahead}"
   fi
   if [[ "${remote_line[1]}" == *behind* ]]; then
-    num_behind=`echo "${remote_line[1]}" | cut -c 9-`
+    num_behind=${remote_line[1]:9}
     remote="${remote}_BEHIND_${num_behind}"
   fi
 fi