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codecaine · 01-11-2010, 03:11 PM

Here is a example of arrays in bash.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#arrays in bash can be in any order as you see below I have myarray with only indexs of 2 4 10

myarray[2]='second'

myarray[4]='forth'

myarray[10]='tenth'

myarray[17]=17

#when returning a value from a rray you muyst have ${} around it

echo '${myarray[2]}'

echo ${myarray[2]}

#if you try to call a array index that was not initialize you will just be return a blank

echo '${myarray[1]}'

echo ${myarray[1]}

#to display all the items in a array you can do as follows

echo '${myarray[@]}'

echo ${myarray[@]}

#another way to display all the items in a array you can use the *

echo '${myarray[*]}'

echo ${myarray[*]}

#to loop through a array in a for loop do as follows. This is useful if you want to do something to each single element

echo 'array for loop example'

for x in ${myarray[@]}

do

    echo $x

done

RecursiveQuickSort · 01-18-2010, 09:11 PM

One difference I notice here as opposed to some languages is bash arrays grow dynamically.