[NTLUG:Discuss] Strings in BASH, an easier way?

[David Stanaway]

Bash handles ARRAY types. That is how it handles PATH.

Look for ARRAY in man bash

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> I'm wanting to split a string in BASH.  I know about gawk and maybe sed 
> but I'm looking for a less involved solution.  The simplest I've found 
> so far is the cut program but I'm wondering if there is something even 
> simpler.
>
> To add some context, what surfaced this is I wanted to do an apropos on 
> all programs in my path.  What I have at this point is:
>
> for i in `echo $PATH | cut -d: -f1-30 --output-delimiter=" "`; do
> for j in `ls -1 $i`; do apropos $j; read; done;
> done
>
> Not only is this a little more verbose than I want but the -f parameter 
> is a little "brittle" in that there doesn't appear to be any to say 
> "however many fields there are".
>
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