title: Howto split a string on a multi-character delimiter in bash?
body: <p>Why doesn't work the following bash code?</p>
  
  <pre><code>for i in $( echo "emmbbmmaaddsb" | split -t "mm"  )
  do
      echo "$i"
  done
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>expected output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>e
  bb
  aaddsb
  </code></pre>