On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Alex Schuster <wo...@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
>
>
thanks for the info
