From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 21:34:08 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimf-xJuR5vdrsJsm88EOC=gWjHuqg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105171536.26328.wonko@wonkology.org>
On 2011-05-17, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-17 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-16 23:10 [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D Felix Miata
2011-05-16 23:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-17 0:36 ` Willie Wong
2011-05-17 0:38 ` Felix Miata
2011-05-17 7:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-17 10:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-17 13:10 ` Juan Diego Tascón
2011-05-17 13:36 ` Alex Schuster
2011-05-17 13:51 ` Juan Diego Tascón
2011-05-17 14:34 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-05-17 17:38 ` Stroller
2011-05-18 10:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-18 19:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-18 20:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-18 20:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-05-18 20:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-19 19:01 ` Walter Dnes
2011-05-17 14:30 ` David Haller
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