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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Assigning array values using awk in shell scripting Post 302719999 by Corona688 on Tuesday 23rd of October 2012 11:31:46 AM
Old 10-23-2012
There's almost never a reason to dump a file into an array in shell, let alone a silly method that runs awk on the same line 7 times. I've seen people who think they have to run awk n times for n lines before, but n*7 times for n lines is a new one on me! Smilie

This accomplishes the output you wanted without awk or arrays in one line:
Code:
$ tr -s ' \t' '\n' < /home/rama/expenese.txt

5032
210179
3110
132813874
53488966
11459221
5300794

$

If you really do want it stored in your shell, you could do this:

Code:
# works in any bourne shell
set -- `cat file`

echo $1
echo $2

or
Code:
# requires ksh
set -A arrname `cat file`

But again, there's almost never any reason to dump a file into an array in shell. Please explain your actual goal.

Last edited by Corona688; 10-23-2012 at 12:38 PM..
 

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platform::shell(n)					       Tcl Bundled Packages						platform::shell(n)

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NAME
platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities SYNOPSIS
package require platform::shell ?1.1.4? platform::shell::generic shell platform::shell::identify shell platform::shell::platform shell _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell. This package allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine. While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of the running shell this is not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run 32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers. For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will actually run the installed packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software. COMMANDS
platform::shell::identify shell This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell. platform::shell::generic shell This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell. platform::shell::platform shell This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell. KEYWORDS
operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture platform::shell 1.1.4 platform::shell(n)
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