epcim
2/9/2016 - 9:27 AM
bash parse input into positional attributes
bash parse input into positional attributes
set $text
#After that, individual words in $text will be in $1, $2, $3, etc. For robustness, one usually does
set -- junk $text
shift
#to handle the case where $text is empty or start with a dash. For example:
text="This is a test"
set -- junk $text
shift
for word; do
echo "[$word]"
done