Hi

I am new to shell scripting and i am preparing a script.
for now i am work on a sub part of it..but i am unable to make it work.

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the test code that i am working on
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IFS=""
Sample_eve=`psg proc_s | grep tY`
n=0
for line in $Sample_eve
do
n=`expr $n + 1`
Sam$n=$(`echo $line |awk -F" " {print $5}' |awk -F":" '{print $2}'`)
echo $Sam$n
done
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what i am trying to this is..
list all the process named proc_s that are currently running and are on the machine tY..
populate them in the variable Sample_eve.
and then access each line from the Sample_eve and process them on an individual basis.
but it is not happening ..for loop only goes through once..if i do not set IFS="" then line takes word by word data from the $Sample_eve...by which i cannot get seperate start time for each process. (it runs 35 times for 4 lines..i want to make it run only 4 time for 4 line).

i am doing `echo $line |awk -F" " {print $5}' |awk -F":" '{print $2}'` ..so as to get the start time for each process in minutes..then i am assigning it into array Sam so as to get the start Minute for each process.
but getting an output error like this..
for this array assignment as Test[9]: 04^J28^J04^J09: not found.
04, 28,04,09 are correctly shown they are the minutes ..but is not in a proper manner.

i am stuck with this thing .. please help me. I am unable to make the code work.

i am using the korn shell.
thanks

You can not do like this... $ should not come on the left side.
This will work...

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Hi thanks.. the code you gave worked.

but further while accessing the array Sam. i am having some issues.

1: When i echo ${Sam[$2]} rather than giving the 2nd element it prints all of them

2: for (( i = 0 ; i < ${#Sam[@]} ; i++ ))
do
echo ${Sam[$i]}
done
its throwing an error
Test[16]: syntax error at line 17 : `((' unexpected

can you please tell how to go about accessing the array..

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...

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??

this way...

Tried..but its not printing anything...any other way u know to do this.

the test code is

IFS=""
eve=`psg ftp | grep tV`
n=0
for line in $eve
do
n=`expr $n + 1`
echo $line
array=`echo $line |awk -F" " '{print $5}' |awk -F":" '{print $2}'`
echo ${array[2]}
done