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Read a string field by field

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Let’s assume that the field separator is : 

var='line: 1
line: 2
line3'
while IFS= read -d : -r field || [ -n "$field" ]; do
   echo "-$field-"
done <<< "$var"

Output: 

-line-
- 1
line-
- 2
line3
-
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* Looping through a file line by line
* Looping through the output of a command field by field
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* Looping through the output of a command line by line
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