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# 1  
Old 05-08-2008
Data how to seperate space in a string
Dear Members,

I have string like this
string1="file2.txt file4.txt kittu.txt file1.txt"

in this i need to cut spaces and take each one has one file
output should be
---------
fileslist:4

file2.txt
file4.txt
kittu.txt
file1.txt

is it possible, please tell me how it possible

thanks
Krish.
# 2  
Old 05-08-2008
ksh:

for i in `cat filename`
do
echo $i
done
# 3  
Old 05-08-2008
Hi,

its not file
its string


string1="file2.txt file4.txt kittu.txt file1.txt"
echo $string1
for i in `cat string1`
do
echo $i
done

but its not working
# 4  
Old 05-08-2008
You had an error because you don't have a file called string1.

try this:

Code:
string1="file2.txt file4.txt kittu.txt file1.txt"
for i in `echo $string1`
do
echo $i
done

or just

Code:
string1="file2.txt file4.txt kittu.txt file1.txt"
for i in $string1
do
echo $i
done

# 5  
Old 05-08-2008
Thank you boss its workingggggg fineeeeeeeeee
thank youuuuuuuuuu
# 6  
Old 05-08-2008
You can also use the cut utility for this purpose...
Code:
firstfield=`echo $string1 | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f 1`
echo $firstfiled

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