[TriLUG] tab stops in a bash shell

[Craig Taylor]

I assume you mean you're wanting to parse tab delimited files in a bash
script? If so, the key is setting the IFS / Interfield seperator environment
variable. (Man on bash search for IFS).

Eg:

#!/bin/bash
IFS="\t"
cat t2.tab | while read x y z; do
  echo "$x / $y / $z"
done

should work for a 3 field tab delimited file with the tab character.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:10 PM, stan briggs <stanbriggs at gmail.com> wrote:

> all,
> does anyone know how to change the tab stops that are used from inside of a
> bash script?
>
> thanks,
> stan
>
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