I have this string stored in a variable:
IN=\"bla@some.com;john@home.com\"
Now I would like to split the strings by ; delimite
;
you can apply awk to many situations
echo "bla@some.com;john@home.com"|awk -F';' '{printf "%s\n%s\n", $1, $2}'
also you can use this
echo "bla@some.com;john@home.com"|awk -F';' '{print $1,$2}' OFS="\n"