Question

I have a program which outputs a pair of words surrounded by spaces on each output line:

  aa  bb
  ccc ddd
  ee  fff

I would like to reformat those in a bash script to remove the spaces and separate the words with a ‘/’

aa/bb 
ccc/ddd
ee/fff`

So far the only way I’ve figured out is two scripts:

script1:

#!/bin/bash

while read line
do
  ./script2 $line
done

script2:

#!/bin/bash

echo $1/$2

Is there some obvious way to do it in one script that I’m not seeing?

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash

while read a b 
do 
    echo "$a/$b" 
done