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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Use loop var i within Cut Command Post 302332649 by TonyFullerMalv on Thursday 9th of July 2009 05:49:37 PM
Old 07-09-2009
This seems to work:
Code:
permissions="rwxr-x---"
for i in {1..9}
do
  echo i = $i       
  theChar=$(echo "$permissions" | cut -c$i)
  echo theChar = $theChar
done

Code:
$ bash ./arraytest.sh
i = 1
theChar = r
i = 2
theChar = w
i = 3
theChar = x
i = 4
theChar = r
i = 5
theChar = -
i = 6
theChar = x
i = 7
theChar = -
i = 8
theChar = -
i = 9
theChar = -
$

Also I presume that:
charArray[i]
should be
charArray[$i]
?

Not that I have got any of that part of the code working..

http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2008/...sh-script.html looks helpful on using arrays in shells scripting.
 

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