Re: Splitting in shell (bash)

gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:

Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

mapfile -td ';' < <(someprocess | awk 1 ORS=)

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mapfile -t < <(someprocess | sed 's/;/\n/g')

And in your original post you wrote:

  There is a feature that is prominently missing from the shell language
  (I am speaking primarily of bash here) - which is the ability to split
  a string on a delimiter. This is a common operation in most other
  text-processing oriented languages (AWK, Perl, etc).

So why bother with a shell solution and why bother with avoiding IFS,
when in the end you need to resort to AWK/sed anyway?

Do not get me wrong, I am learning a lot in this thread here, much of
the stuff is far beyond my level of expertise in shell programming, and
it would be great to have a shell-only solution for your inquiry, even
if only for "academic reasons" because, say, the solution (still to
come) may turn out to be too clumsy for daily use). I will applaud such
a result, but for the time being I would be happy if you could elaborate
somewhat more about your motivation for this exercise.

Best regards

Axel