Question

How to extract the first word from a string in Bash

Answer 1

S="bash python java c c++ c#"

first_word=$(echo $S | awk '{print $1}')
echo $first_word



    
    
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Answer 2

S="bash python java c c++ c#"

echo $S | cut -d " " -f 1



    
    
# run:
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# bash
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