Some time back I wrote this post showing how to split a string into substrings separated by multi character delimiters. Didn’t realize then that there’s a much easier solution using awk. Using the same example as used in the previous post, here’s the solution.
echo "abcd<>efgh<>ijkl<>mn op<>qr st<>uv wx<>yz" | awk 'BEGIN {FS="<>"} {for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)print $i}' The delimiter here is "<>".
This will print out all the substrings. If you want an individual substring, you can use something like
echo "abcd<>efgh<>ijkl<>mn op<>qr st<>uv wx<>yz" | awk 'BEGIN {FS="<>"} {print $1}' echo "abcd<>efgh<>ijkl<>mn op<>qr st<>uv wx<>yz" | awk 'BEGIN {FS="<>"} {print $2}' Thats how easy it is.
