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Asked: 2026-05-17T20:12:52+00:00

Lets say I have a variable which has values : #!/bin/sh MYVARIABLE=first,second,third for vars

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Lets say I have a variable which has values :

#!/bin/sh
    MYVARIABLE="first,second,third"

    for vars in MYVARIABLE
    do 
    echo $vars
    done

this above doesn’t work what I want but it looks fine, this should print first second third without , I wan’t it to be printed without , any sugestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use IFS (the input field separator), eg.

    #!/bin/sh
MYVARIABLE="first,second,third"
IFS=","

for vars in $MYVARIABLE
do 
  echo $vars
done
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