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|tr "," " "` FOO=( $FOOBAR ) foonum=${#FOO} for ((i=0;i<$foonum;i++)); do echo ${FOO[${i}]} done kapsels:~/Desktop/Minerva/Treshow/new_files kapsel$ sh test.sh bar string some text ------------ new test ------------ sed: 1: "s/ /\\\\": unterminated substitute in regular expression