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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [BASH - KSH] Passing array to a function Post 302186247 by Perderabo on Wednesday 16th of April 2008 09:49:15 PM
Old 04-16-2008
This version works with ksh or bash.

Code:
#! /usr/local/bin/bash
#! /usr/bin/ksh

function print_array  {
        array_name=$1
        eval echo \${$array_name[*]}
        return
}

colors[0]="Pink"
colors[1]="Light Gray"
colors[2]="Green"

print_array colors
exit 0

 

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	 /bin/ksh93		    /bin/pfcsh
	 /bin/pfksh		    /bin/pfsh
	 /bin/sh		    /bin/tcsh
	 /bin/zsh		    /sbin/jsh
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	 /usr/bin/bash		    /usr/bin/csh
	 /usr/bin/jsh		    /usr/bin/ksh
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