retreiving and assigning values and manipulating string in a for loop - Shell Programming and Scripting

Anteus · #5 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by rakeshawasthi

We can not write a for loop like this, unless you are using awk.
I am giving an example of Array and for loop for you...

Code:

set -A _Array 1 2 3 4 5
for i in ${_Array[@]}
do
   echo $i
done

Yeah . but what to do if only the second element of the array Sam has to be echoed..

and why does echo ${Sam[$2]} prints the entire Sam array??