Split on specific characters on Bash Script’s for loop

Feb 202012

Split on specific characters on Bash Script's for loop

Answer:

If you want to Bash script's for loop to split on non white-space characters, you can change the IFS, e.g.

#!/bin/bash
IFS='-'

list="a-b-c-d-e"

for c in $list; do
    echo $c
done

The above script will split on the character '-'

E.g.

# ./test.sh

a
b
c
d
e