Issue
I want to split a text with comma ,
not space in
for foo in list
. Suppose I have a CSV file CSV_File
with following text inside it:
Hello,World,Questions,Answers,bash shell,script
...
I used following code to split it into several words:
for word in $(cat CSV_File | sed -n 1'p' | tr ',' '\n')
do echo $word
done
It prints:
Hello
World
Questions
Answers
bash
shell
script
But I want it to split the text by commas not spaces:
Hello
World
Questions
Answers
bash shell
script
How can I achieve this in bash?
Solution
Using a subshell substitution to parse the words undoes all the work you are doing to put spaces together.
Try instead:
cat CSV_file | sed -n 1'p' | tr ',' '\n' | while read word; do
echo $word
done
That also increases parallelism. Using a subshell as in your question forces the entire subshell process to finish before you can start iterating over the answers. Piping to a subshell (as in my answer) lets them work in parallel. This matters only if you have many lines in the file, of course.
Answered By - mkj Answer Checked By - Dawn Plyler (WPSolving Volunteer)