How to retrieve the first word of the output of a command in bash?

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Published on 2010-03-13T23:09:16Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 23:15 UTC
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I have a command, for example: echo "word1 word2". I want to put a pipe (|) and get word1 from the command.

echo "word1 word2" | ....

I don't know what to put after the pipe...

Thanks in advance

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