Need help for finding correct delimiter

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I've a series of words in the format "abc0001d" till "abc1999d".

I would like to use delimiter to cut the word from abc0001s to two words:

abc00 and 01d. Help me in finding the correct delimiter to cut in desired way.

2 
 
$ echo "abc0001d" | awk '{print substr($0,1,5)}'
abc00
$ echo "abc0001d" | awk '{print substr $0,6,3)}'
01d
1 Like
3

With a space as delimiter:

echo "abc0001d" | sed 's/\(.....\)\(.*\)/\1 \2/'
4

You can use cut character option to get the result

while read line
do
        firstFour=`echo $line|cut -c1-5`
         lastThree=`echo $line|cut -c6-8`
       echo "First Four= $firstFour"
         echo "Last Three= $lastThree"
done < file
5 
$ x=abc0001d
$ first=${x:0:5}
$ echo $first
abc00
$ second=${x:5:7}
$ echo $second
01d
6

Another way,

$ a=abc0001d
$ echo ${a:0:5}
abc00
$ echo ${a:5}
01d

EDIT : Simultaneous posting. Same solution as above.

7

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

8 
echo abc0001d | sed -e  "s/...$/ &/g"
abc00 01d