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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Passing values from file into array in Bash Post 302732077 by ShiGua on Friday 16th of November 2012 02:04:27 PM
Old 11-16-2012
Passing values from file into array in Bash
Hi,

I'm trying to write a bash script that takes a file and passes each line from the file into an array with elements separated by column.

For example:

Sample file "file1.txt":

Code:
1 name1 a first
2 name2 b second
3 name3 c third

and have arrays such as:

Code:
line1 = ( "1" "name1" "a" "first" )
line2 = ( "2" "name2" "b" "second" ) 
line1 = ( "3" "name3" "c" "third" )

I'd also like to know if it's possible to pass each column of values into its own array, such as:

Code:
column1 = ( "1" "2" "3" )
column2 = ( "name1" "name2" "name3" )
column3 = ( "a" "b" "c" )
column4 = ( "first" "second" "third" )

Thank you!
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 11-16-2012 at 11:01 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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