Dear all,

Anyone can give me some direction on it?

Here is my file content,

aaaaa:bbbbb:ccccc:ddddd
11111:22222:33333333:444
zzzz:dddd:eee:eee

how do i read each column into specific variable with delimeter ":"??

Here my script,anyone can give me some direction on it?

#!/bin/bash
while read v1 v2 v3 v4
do
.......
done < text.txt

hi,
You can do like this:
#!/bin/bash
while read buf
do
v1=`echo $buf|cut -d: -f 1`
v2=`echo $buf|cut -d: -f 2`
.......
done < text.txt

Change the field separator, IFS:

#!/bin/bash

while IFS=":" read v1 v2 v3 v4
do
printf "%s %s \n" $v1 $v2
done < text.txt

In awk, use the -F flag

awk -F: '{ print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $4 }' text.txt

Dear all,

Really sorry to everyone about that actually this solution have been solved by nail and posted before, but i didn't search deeply so that this msg can be consider is a duplicate message!

Thanks you to everyone who give a hand on it.