How to split a string in bash by delimiter
We can do this by setting an internal file separator (IFS) variable to delimiter ; then parse it as an array and use for loop to get the each string.
In this below example, we are splitting a dummy variable string by semicolon ;.
dummy="king;ring;ping"
# turns string to array
IFS= ";" read -ra ADDR <<< "$dummy"
# for loop
for i in "${ADDR[@]}"; do
echo $i
doneOutput:
king
ring
pingSplit string by comma
dummy="king,ring,ping"
# turns string to array
IFS= "," read -ra ADDR <<< "$dummy"
# for loop
for i in "${ADDR[@]}"; do
echo $i
done- Share:
