Shell Programming and Scripting

read name
MyString=$name
name2=" "
echo $MyString | awk -v ORS="" '{ gsub(/./,"&\n") ; print }' | \
while read char
do
        if [ "$char" = "name2" ]
        then
            echo "$final"
            echo "in here"
            final=""
        else
            final=`echo $final $char`
        fi      
done

tr -s ' '  '\n' < inputfile

echo $name | tr '\040' '\012'

#!/bin/bash

read -a ARR

# echo all elements of array ARR
echo ${ARR[*]}

# echo element no. 2 of array ARR (Index starts at 0)
echo ${ARR[1]}

# echo number of elements
echo ${#ARR[*]}