I needed some reusable stuff that splits a string every nth char. Then I remembered that bash and zsh, the shells that I usually use, support string slicing. Kinda like Python does. Or the other way around. Made a shell function. Dropped in into .bashrc / .zshrc. Enjoy.

function string_split()
{
	str="$1"
	count=$2
	while [ ! -z "$str" ]
	do
		echo "${str:0:$count}"
		str="${str:$count}"
	done
}

Example:

string_split abcd 2
ab
cd