[wplug] Breaking a word into the individual characters in a shell script

[Moshe Hyzon]

just set FS to null in the begin block

awk -e 'BEGIN{FS=""}{print
"path/"$1"/"$2"/"$3"/"$4"/"$5"/"$6"/"$7"/"}' or the like

Moshe


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Rob Lines <rlinesseagate at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have dealt with using awk to grab certain columns in a file and then
> work with them as variables but now I want to take a single word and
> break it up into the individual characters for example
>
> dog and I want to assign d, o and g to separate variables to work
> with.  I looked through the awk man page and I am just not finding how
> to interact with the x character that I pass it.
>
> I may not be looking at the right tool for the job so if anyone has
> any suggestions of another tool that would work suggestions are
> welcome.
>
> The end goal is that I have a large number of files that need to be
> sorted into directories based on the name of the files (that I already
> have) and those directories are all based on the name of the file.
> for example the file dogncat_0321 would be found in
> /path/d/o/g/n/c/a/t/.  I want to pass the filename to the command and
> have it grab the first 7 characters (and always the first 7
> characters) and save each one in a seperate variable as the directory
> structure may or may not currently exist and I plan to check for the
> existence in the script and generate it on the fly if it is not
> already there.
>
> Thanks for any help or pointers in the right direction.
>
> Rob
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