If you have a string "one two three", Which shell command would you use to extract the strings?

echo $string | cut -d" " -f1 
echo $string | cut -d" " -f2 
echo $string | cut -d" " -f3 
 
 

echo "one two three" | cut -d" " -f 1,2,3 
or 
echo "one two three" | awk '{print $1 $2 $3}' 

sed and awk 

cut , awk, sed and others are not "SHELL" commands. One way could be with bash: string="one two three"tab=($string)$ echo ${tab[0]}one$ echo ${tab[1]}two$ echo ${tab[2]}threehttp://www.big-up.org

echo "one two three" | while read ONE TWO THREE
print $ONE
one
print $TWO
two
print $THREE
three

set -- one two three
echo $1
echo $2
echo $3

Hi all,

Can we use like this..

echo $string | tr " " "n"

Here the output will be something like this

One
Two
Three


if the value of string="One Two Three"

Please make me clear if i am wrong..i am a new baby to shell scripting. :-)
Thanks,
Jitu

Hi The answer is excellent but I like to modify it a little, only the command
string="one two three"tab=($string)$ echo ${tab[0]}one ${tab[1]}two ${tab[2]}three it self is enough to ptint "one two three", no more echos' are required.

input="one two three"
echo $input | tr " " "n"

output would be like :

one
two
three

one of my friend gave this answer but in place of "n" he gave "n" only which will gave
output like :

onentwonthree

thanks

Sorry typo error... in place on n we have to give "n"

echo "one two three" | awk '{print $0 }'

$0willreturn the entire string as it'swithin quotes and will treat as one.

Try this:

echo "one two three" | xargs

the output is: one two three

Code
echo $1
echo $2
echo $3