Split

AkumaTay · #1 (**permalink**) 08-17-2001

Is there a split function in shell? (not awk)

Coz i got a string as input and needed to split it.

eg. input = "abc:123:def:www"

I need to split it into 4 variable which contains abc,123,def,www.

Is there anyway i can do tat?

patvdv · #2 (**permalink**) 08-18-2001

cut will do nicely for you:

var1 = $(echo ${input} | cut -f 1 -d ":")
var1 = $(echo ${input} | cut -f 2 -d ":")

etc.

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