How to grep from a list

Hi

Below is what I am trying to do. I have a variable which contains a list of commands seperated by ":". While trying to use a for loop to get each command, it doesnt retrun the correct results

Example:

var="command -1:command -2*: command something*"
for c in `echo $var | tr ':' ' '`
do
echo $c
done

Instead of getting the below
command -1
command -2*
command something

I get
command
-1
command
-2*
command
something

Please help

Is this supposed to be Perl?

It looks like shell to me. But some parts are looking a bit like Perl. Don't do such things. Do it in Perl or in shell script, not a mixture of both (even though you may call some shell command from Perl if you need).

This is shell and I keep posting this in Perl coz I dont see a seperate section for shell scripting. I am not sure if I missed it but I did look for it

Try it using an array:

Code:

$ cat test.sh
var=("command -1:" "command -2*:" "command something*")
for c in "${var[@]}"
do
  echo $c | sed 's/\://g'
done

$ test.sh
command -1
command -2*
command something*

Thanks a bunch!!!!

Allright, sorry, but then, may be you should tell it upfront, because I was initially thinking: "oh, man, what a mess, she really understands nothing to Perl and thinks it is like shell." ;-)

I guess you have a solution by now.

Unix Help or Linux Help is probably where it should be posted, but the description doesn't mention shell scripting

Windows Help used to have a good few WSH questions at one time, but I don't spend too much time there

I'm on Solaris and it is saying there is no -d option for grep.

I see what you were doing there. Nice and simple if I were on something a bit more full featured.

so close, so far away...

Thanks

Maybe you have egrep installed.