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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Field separator in awk Post 302408432 by kshji on Monday 29th of March 2010 12:59:34 PM
Old 03-29-2010
If you need split one string to the fields, the awk is huge tool for that. You can use builtin properties (ksh93, bash, ...).
Code:
oifs="$IFS"        # save input field delemiter
IFS=":"             # set input fld delim.
flds=($TIME)     # parse input the array
fld1=${flds[0]}  # first field index is 0
numberOfFlds=${#flds[@]}
for var in fld1 numberOfFlds
do
      eval echo $var = \$$var
done

Or using read, this version works also with dash, ksh88, sh, ...
Code:
TIME=12:44
IFS=":" read fld1 fld2 xstr <<EOF
$TIME
EOF
for var in fld1 fld2
do
      eval echo $var = \$$var
done

 

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SHCOMP(1)						    User Environment Utilities							 SHCOMP(1)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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ORIGIN OF THIS MAN PAGE

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DESCRIPTION

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