Shell: How to cut a single string with "Cut"?

bash, cut, io-redirection, sh, shell

Solution

You can use `Here Strings` in `BASH`:

cut -d' ' -f1 <<< "hello 12345 xyz"
hello

Problem

i'm trying to cut a string into the shell. I'd like to do something like: ``` cut -d' ' -f1 "hello 12345 xyz" ``` but the problem is that cut accept a file, so if i pass the string to it, it tries to open the unexistent file called "hello 12345 xyz" and then tries to cut its content I'd like to resolve this problem with the base programs, so don't tell me to use awk thanks!

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