On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 20:32 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2010-02-14 10:04 (-0600), John Salmon wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to change the field seperators in Bash's read command
> > (Debian Lenny)?
>
> The answer has been given but here's an example script which uses
> "read":
>
> #!/bin/bash
> IFS=, read -a numbers < <(echo one,t w o,three)
> printf '<%s>\n' "${numbe...@]}"
>
> It will print:
>
> <one>
> <t w o>
> <three>
>
> In this case "read" is not necessary. This would do the same:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> IFS=, numbers=( $(echo one,t w o,three) )
> printf '<%s>\n' "${numbe...@]}"
>
>
> --
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> them.
>
>
This answers my questions in full. May I say thanks to all who supplied
advice. I'm an old dog learning new tricks and sometimes I need a lot of
help.
I'd also like to say thanks for the info about mawk. I didn't know that
it existed. I had already installed gawk with no appearent conflicts.
John Salmon
salmo...@comcast.net
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