Split a string on a delimiter

Brief: This tutorial will help you understand how to split a string based on a specified delimiter.

Use linux cut command to split a string based on specified delimeter. Use delimeter with -d command line option as below.

echo "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash" | cut -d ":" -f6

1	echo "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash" \| cut -d ":" -f6

Output:

/root

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