Re: kinda perl split ...

[Marc Chantreux <marc.chantreux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominic Mitchell wrote:

>   echo foo bar | while read a b junk
>   do
>     echo "a=$a b=$b"
>   done


so if the separator is ':', you should redefine IFS

oldIFS=$IFS
IFS=':'
echo foo bar | while read a b junk
do
     echo "a=$a b=$b"
done
IFS=$oldIFS
oldIFS=

or with a subshell:

( IFS=':'
echo foo bar | while read a b junk
do
     echo "a=$a b=$b"
done )