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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting creating array variable Post 302124052 by scriptingmani on Thursday 28th of June 2007 10:09:01 AM
Old 06-28-2007
creating array variable
Hi all,

i am quite fimiliar with shell scripting but i wouldn't regard myself as a semi professional at it.

I am trying to create an array variable to read in 4 lines from a file using head and tail command in a pipeline and store each line into each array. I have done the scripting in unix but for some reason i keep getting syntax errors during runtime saying 'mon=' unexpected.

for the moment i am trying to create a simple script to store months Jan, Feb Mar Apr into array mon but its not having it and i don't know why. i did google searches and i tried a number of the examples i found but none work
i tried to use declare -a mon but it says "declare: not found" - is it something to do with the first line - #!/bin/bash?
#!/bin/bash

mon=( Jan Feb Mar Apr )

echo $mon

can someone please throw some light onto this becuase its doing my head in.

thanks in advance

Mani
 

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set(n)							       Tcl Built-In Commands							    set(n)

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NAME

       set - Read and write variables

SYNOPSIS

       set varName ?value?
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DESCRIPTION

       Returns	the  value  of	variable  varName.   If value is specified, then set the value of varName to value, creating a new variable if one
       doesn't already exist, and return its value.  If varName contains an open parenthesis and ends with a close parenthesis, then it refers	to
       an  array  element:  the characters before the first open parenthesis are the name of the array, and the characters between the parentheses
       are the index within the array.	Otherwise varName refers to a scalar variable.	Normally, varName is unqualified  (does  not  include  the
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SEE ALSO

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KEYWORDS

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