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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Processing data that contains space and quote delimiters Post 302432769 by Scrutinizer on Saturday 26th of June 2010 07:55:48 PM
Old 06-26-2010
Code:
while read line
do
  eval set -- "$line"
  echo "$4"
done < infile

or:
Code:
print4() 
{ 
  echo "$4"
}

while read line
do
  eval print4 "$line"
done < infile

or (ksh93/bash):
Code:
while read line
do
  eval A=($line)
  echo ${A[3]}
done < infile

output:
Code:
C
H H


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-28-2010 at 04:29 PM.. Reason: Optimized ksh93/bash array assignment
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RCVPACK(1)							     [nmh-1.5]								RCVPACK(1)

NAME
rcvpack - append message to file SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mh/rcvpack file [-mbox] [-mmdf] [-version] [-help] DESCRIPTION
The rcvpack program will append a copy of the message to the file listed on its command line. If the -mbox switch is given (the default), then the messages are separated using mbox (uucp) style delimiters. This is the format used by most mail clients (elm, mailx, etc.). If the -mmdf switch is given, then the messages are separated by mmdf style delimiters. Each message in the file is separated by four CTRL-A's and a newline. rcvpack will correctly lock and unlock the file to serialize access to the file, when running multiple copies of rcvpack . In general, its use is obsoleted by the file action of slocal, although it might still have occasional uses in various shell scripts. FILES
/etc/nmh/mts.conf nmh mts configuration file SEE ALSO
rcvdist(1), rcvstore(1), rcvtty(1), slocal(1) BUGS
Only two return codes are meaningful, others should be. MH.6.8 11 June 2012 RCVPACK(1)
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