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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D
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On 2011-05-17, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Juan Diego Tasc=C3=B3n 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=3D"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=3D( $str )
> echo $strarr (or echo ${strarr[0]})
>
> Wonko
>
>
How about this:
str=3D"one two three"
read word etc <<< "$str"
echo $word
(not tested, though)
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