Read a Delimited File
How can you read a row in delimited file and get each field value into a separate variable?
#!/usr/bin/bash IFS=":" while read f1 f2 f3; do echo "$f1-$f2-$f3" done < delim.txt
Using the following input file as a sample:
field1:field2:field3 field1a:field2a:field3a
Sample run:
$ ./delim.sh field1-field2-field3 field1a-field2a-field3a