On 2011-05-17, Alex Schuster <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ${strarr[0]}) > > Wonko > >
How about this: str="one two three" read word etc <<< "$str" echo $word (not tested, though) -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
