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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting arrays and while loops in bash Post 302258690 by zouhair on Saturday 15th of November 2008 11:26:44 AM
Old 11-15-2008
This may work:

Code:
i=0 
while [ $i -le 11 ]
do
master_array[i]=${ARRAY[i]}
((i++))
done

Quote:
Originally Posted by npatwardhan
hi guys,
i have an array called ARRAY which has elements in it... i am trying to assign elements of ARRAY to master_array..
i get a =: command not found error..
Code:
i=0 
while [ $i -le 11 ]
do
${master_array[i]}=${ARRAY[i]}
((i++))
done

is there something i am missing?
 

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mksary - manual page for mksary 1.0.2 SYNOPSIS
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