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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Associative arrays Post 302329255 by d.f. on Friday 26th of June 2009 10:58:19 AM
Old 06-26-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by prasperl
Hi all,

var="wavelength"
print ${$var[violet]}

this is throwing error saying bad substitution.

Please help me out
This might be a simple referencing issue, perhaps the shell is looking for an array called 'var' rather than your variable's value. Have you tried to explicitly dereference 'var'? :

Code:
print ${${var}[violet]}

If that works, you might be able to clean things up a bit more.
 

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strclean [-a age] [-d logdir] DESCRIPTION
strclean is used to clean up the STREAMS error logger directory on a regular basis (for example, by using cron. By default, all files with names matching error.* in /var/adm/streams that have not been modified in the last three days are removed. OPTIONS
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