Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash:How to split one string variable in two variables? Post 302362160 by pludi on Thursday 15th of October 2009 06:28:21 AM
Old 10-15-2009
Like this:
Code:
$ cat test.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
var="abc = def"
echo $var | IFS="${IFS}=" read KEY VALUE
echo $KEY
echo $VALUE
$ ./test.sh
abc
def

 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

extract from string variable into new variables

I have a variable which consists of a string like this: 001 aaabc 44 a bbb12 How do I extract each substring, delimited by the spaces, into new variables - one for each substring? eg var1 will be 001, var2 will be aaabc, var3 will be 44, var4 will be a, etc? I've come up with this:... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sniper Pixie
2 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

KSH split string into variables

Hello, I am an intermediate scripter. I can usually find and adapt what I need by searching through previous postings, but I'm stumped. I have a string with the format "{Name1 Release1 Type1 Parent1} {Name2 Release2 Type2 Parent2}". It is being passed as an argument into a ksh script. I need to... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: drd_2b
5 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

split files by specifying a string (bash shell)

Hi all, I have a file of around 300 lines in which string "SERVER" occurs around 32 times. for eg. I need to split files like, for eg I am using this code awk '/SERVER/{n++}{print > f n}' f=/vikas/list /vikas/final But the problem is that it makes maximum of 10 files, but I... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: vikas027
12 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

SPLIT STRING in bash shell script

i need one help.... if i have a string like aaaaa,bbbbb,ccccc,aaaaa How to to split the string and check howmany times aaaaa will be in that string? Thanks (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: karthinvk
7 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

On the command line using bash, how do you split a string by column?

Input: MD5(secret.txt)= fe66cbf9d929934b09cc7e8be890522e MD5(secret2.txt)= asd123qwlkjgre5ug8je7hlt488dkr0p I want the results to look like these, respectively: MD5(secret.txt)= fe66cbf9 d929934b 09cc7e8b e890522e MD5(secret2.txt)= asd123qw lkjgre5u g8je7hlt 488dkr0p Basically, keeping... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: teiji
11 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Bash assign string to variable

Hi ,I am trying to assign string to variable ,but it doesn't work Also could you show me different ways to use grep,(I am trying to get the first,second and first column form file,and I am counting the chars) let name=`grep "$id" product | cut -c6-20` (25 Replies)
Discussion started by: lio123
25 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

bash variable string declaration

Hello, Why is this not working in a script? files="test.fsa" echo $files for file in $files do if then echo "$file does not exist." fi run a command done I get an error saying (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: verse123
3 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Passing string as variable(s) in bash

I'm trying to write a basic bash script that takes input you give (what directory, if any, what name, if any ....) and passes the information to find. I'm trying to just create a string with all variables and then pass it to find. So far I have this extremely simple: #!/bin/bash -f ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Starting_Leaf
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Assign variables to CSV string (bash)

Hi guys, New to the forum, and been messing around with Linux for about a year now. I'm still very much a rookie, so just assume that I'm a total idiot: I currently have a shell that spits out a CSV number string of about 8 numbers as follows: 1.00,2.00,3.00 ... ,8.00I need to assign a... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: hansol
7 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

ksh String Manipulation - removing variables from within a variable

Hi. I'd like to remove all values in a string variable that also exist in a second variable. What is the appropriate approach to take here? I can use a 'For' loop and check each element and then populate a new string. But is there a cleaner, simpler way? E.g. I have the following 2 variables ... (19 Replies)
Discussion started by: user052009
19 Replies
split(1)						      General Commands Manual							  split(1)

NAME
split - split a file into pieces SYNOPSIS
line_count] suffix_length] [file [name]] nsuffix_length] [file [name]] Obsolescent n] [file [name]] DESCRIPTION
reads file and writes it in pieces (default 1000 lines) onto a set of output files. The name of the first output file is name with appended, and so on lexicographically, up to (only ASCII letters are used, a maximum of 676 files). If no output name is given, is the default. If no input file is given, or if is given instead, the standard input file is used. Options recognizes the following command-line options and arguments: The input file is split into pieces line_count lines in size. suffix_length letters are used to form the suffix of the output filenames. This option allows creation of more than 676 output files. The output file names created cannot exceed the maximum file name length allowed in the directory containing the files. The input file is split into pieces n bytes in size. The input file is split into pieces n x 1024 bytes in size. No space separates the n from the The input file is split into pieces n x 1048576 bytes in size. No space separates the n from the The input file is split into pieces n lines in size. This option is obsolescent and is equivalent to using the option. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables determines the locale for the interpretation of text as single- and/or multi-byte characters. determines the language in which messages are displayed. If or is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty variable. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See environ(5). International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. SEE ALSO
csplit(1). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
split(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:36 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy