space in bash question

Mr Green · 2008-07-13 09:04:49

I am looking for a way to cut a string by finding a space in a line of text

example

The cat sat on the mat

I want The?

in a string

tried looking at awk sed [ cut -f 1 works!] but need some way to store outpur of a command in a string ? eval ?

ok ok I have searched but I am not getting the right thing and you dudes know what you are talking about :-)

MrG

Allan · 2008-07-13 09:20:35

well, sticking with cut:

sto="$(echo "The cat sat on the mat" | cut -f1 -d" ")"

will store "The" in sto or you can go

phrase="The cat sat on the mat"
sto=${phrase%% *}

See: http://cyborg.lug.md/?p=25

Mr Green · 2008-07-13 09:47:36

thanks man lol..... :-)

I assume eval is the way to get command output in a string .....?

will check out the link

Last edited by Mr Green (2008-07-13 09:48:24)

Allan · 2008-07-13 10:40:36

If you are getting into bash scripting, I highly recommend the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/). It has taught me almost everything I know on the subject with supplements from google.

Mr Green · 2008-07-13 10:50:21

cool thanks a lot :-)

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