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edited Dec 24, 2015 at 10:49

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You will have to change the Internal Field Separator: IFS

q='"Something, variable", another part, third one'

# save actual IFS
_old_ifs="${IFS}"
# set IFS to ","
IFS=","
# split q with this new IFS
set -- `echo $q`${q}`
# restore standard IFS
IFS="${_old_ifs}"

echo \'$1\'

You will have to change the Internal Field Separator: IFS

q='"Something, variable", another part, third one'

# save actual IFS
_old_ifs="${IFS}
# set IFS to ","
IFS=","
# split q with this new IFS
set -- `echo $q`
# restore standard IFS
IFS="${_old_ifs}"

echo \'$1\'

You will have to change the Internal Field Separator: IFS

q='"Something, variable", another part, third one'

# save actual IFS
_old_ifs="${IFS}"
# set IFS to ","
IFS=","
# split q with this new IFS
set -- `echo ${q}`
# restore standard IFS
IFS="${_old_ifs}"

echo \'$1\'

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answered Dec 22, 2015 at 22:37

athena

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You will have to change the Internal Field Separator: IFS

q='"Something, variable", another part, third one'

# save actual IFS
_old_ifs="${IFS}
# set IFS to ","
IFS=","
# split q with this new IFS
set -- `echo $q`
# restore standard IFS
IFS="${_old_ifs}"

echo \'$1\'