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Spot on guys, thanks very much for your quick responses, much appreciated

Hi all, I'd like to know how to identify the first word in a string (in bash) for e.g.

echo "enter your name"
read name
(user enters 'Joe Bloggs' for e.g.)

echo "hello $name"
(output says...

Yes siba.s.nayak, but what if the user enters a first name, 2 middle names, and then a surname? Then it wont work
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Thanks very much TheEngineer that worked perfectly.

And i thank all you that have helped me

Have a good New Year!

Thanks PMM that worked great!

I'm trying to improve this now, so that it doesn't greet everyone as "Mr." So I've made a variable called "title" (referring to Mr. Mrs. etc) my ONLY problem now is...

When i use the code:

echo "Please enter your full name:"
read name
echo $name | awk '{print"Hello Mr." $2}'

And enter a first middle and surname e.g. john bloggs smith then it outputs 'Hello...

The 'read first last' is a good idea but no good if the user has a middle name. And i cant say 'read first middle last' because it wont work if the user doesn't have a middle name. Thanks for any...

The only reason im using awk is because i was advised that was the best way to do this..... Is there another easier way??

'read first last'? Sorry im new to this, could you explain a bit more pls?

Hmmm, ive just asked a friend and he reckons its meant to be something like this:

echo "Please enter your full name:"
read name
echo "$name | awk'{print"Hello Mr.", $2}

This doesnt actually...

Hi, ive got this piece of script:

echo "Enter your full name" (i.e. first and last name)
read name
echo "Hello Mr.(last name only)

How do i split the string so that it says hello and then...