> wooledg:~$ ip -o link | awk -F": " '{print $2}' > lo > eth0 > > The only other scripting language I know that can do splitting with > multi-character separators is perl. > > wooledg:~$ ip -o link | perl -ne '@x=split(/: /); print $x[1], "\n"' > lo > eth0 > > Bash and Tcl can't do it, at least not with their native toolsets.
Bash can, e.g. $ oldIFS="$IFS"; IFS=': '; ip -o link | while read num interface other; do declare -p interface; done; IFS="$oldIFS" declare -- interface="lo" declare -- interface="eth0" declare -- interface="br0" declare -- interface="vethJWC4DL" -- Cheers, Clive