I don't know what that is intended with that, but for simple line splits I'd use awk, which is typically everywhere, and its parameter -F (F there stands for fi

I don't know what that is intended with that, but for simple line splits I'd use awk, which is typically everywhere, and its parameter -F (F there stands for field separator) that is, given the file L with the lines hello,world,one maybe,baby,you awk -F, '{ print $2 }' L should give world baby (tested on https://busybox.net/live_bbox/live_bbox.html https://busybox.net/live_bbox/live_bbox.html )