Shell - (Word | Token | Field)

About

In a bash pipeline, the pipeline message is known as:

• the word
• the field

This is a sequence of characters considered as a single unit by the shell.

The first message is the standard input.

Modification

Expansion

With the following expansion, you can change the number of words of the expansion;

• brace expansion,
• word splitting,
• and pathname expansion

The only exceptions are the expansions of:

• $@ (see positional parameter)
• and Word[@] (see array)

Command

The read command can split an input into line or word.