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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting extracting substrings from variables Post 302525552 by ctsgnb on Friday 27th of May 2011 04:40:14 AM
Old 05-27-2011
Code:
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ set -- $(echo '/var/x/www && /usr/x/share/doc && /etc/x/logs' | sed 's/ &&//g')
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ echo $1
/var/x/www
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ echo $2
/usr/x/share/doc
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ echo $3
/etc/x/logs
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$

 

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