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What's a safe and portable way to split a string in shell programming?
When writing a shell script, I often want to split a string. Here's a very simple example:
for dir in $(echo $PATH | tr : " "); do
[[ -x "$dir"/"$1" ]] && echo $dir
done
This will ...
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Reading the contents of the file and splitting using ksh
We're using a ksh script for installing one product.
I've another config file, I'd need to read this configuration file from my main script
Content of the Configuration file:
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Splitting string by the first occurrence of a delimiter
I have a string in the next format
id;some text here with possible ; inside
and want to split it to 2 strings by first occurrence of the ;. So, it should be: id and some text here with possible ; ...
