Shell Programming and Scripting

for i in {1..9}
do
       
        theChar=$(echo "$permissions" | cut -c2)
        checkPermissions $theChar
        charArray[i]=$response
done

permissions="rwxr-x---"
for i in {1..9}
do
  echo i = $i       
  theChar=$(echo "$permissions" | cut -c$i)
  echo theChar = $theChar
done

$ bash ./arraytest.sh
i = 1
theChar = r
i = 2
theChar = w
i = 3
theChar = x
i = 4
theChar = r
i = 5
theChar = -
i = 6
theChar = x
i = 7
theChar = -
i = 8
theChar = -
i = 9
theChar = -
$

# add space after every char (char between space and z)
perm=$( echo "$permissions" | sed "s/[ -z]/& /g"  )
# after that this is easy
i=1
for c in $perm
do
       charArray[$i]=$c
       (( i+=1 ))
done
echo "${#charArray[*]}"
echo "${charArray[*]}"

i=0
len=${#permissions}
while (( i< len ))
do
       charArray[$i]=${permissions:$i:1}
       (( i+=1 ))
done
echo "${#charArray[*]}"
echo "${charArray[*]}"