Dear Members,

I have string like this
string1="file2.txt file4.txt kittu.txt file1.txt"

in this i need to cut spaces and take each one has one file
output should be
---------
fileslist:4

file2.txt
file4.txt
kittu.txt
file1.txt

is it possible, please tell me how it possible

thanks
Krish.

ksh:

for i in `cat filename`
do
echo $i
done

Hi,

its not file
its string


string1="file2.txt file4.txt kittu.txt file1.txt"
echo $string1
for i in `cat string1`
do
echo $i
done

but its not working

You had an error because you don't have a file called string1.

try this:

string1="file2.txt file4.txt kittu.txt file1.txt"
for i in `echo $string1`
do
echo $i
done

string1="file2.txt file4.txt kittu.txt file1.txt"
for i in $string1
do
echo $i
done

Thank you boss its workingggggg fineeeeeeeeee
thank youuuuuuuuuu

You can also use the cut utility for this purpose...

firstfield=`echo $string1 | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f 1`
echo $firstfiled