Juan Diego Tascón writes:
> I have always wondered if there is a way to do awk '{ print $1}' using
> only builtin bash functions when you only have a one line string
str="one two five"
# remove all from the first blank on, but will not work with
# other whitespace
echo ${str%% *}
or
# set $1, $2, $3, ... to words of $str
set $str
echo $1
or
# create array holding one word per element
strarr=( $str )
echo $strarr (or echo ${strarr[0]})
Wonko
