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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash equivalent of perl's pack function ? Post 302258569 by jim mcnamara on Friday 14th of November 2008 10:23:26 PM
Old 11-14-2008
There is no pack function, but you can:
Code:
# an array
newvar="${array[*]}"
# some variables
newvar="$a $var2 $somevarname"

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