From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "" Subject: parsing a string Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:08:01 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1092096481.411811e1bc136@webmail.dpomeroy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I'm new to bash and am trying to write a script that puts 3 substrings in 3 variables. I have a string with password,firstname,lastname. and I need it to be in 3 variables. I bought a bash scripting book but I can't seem to make it work. Thanks in advance. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs