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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Write array contents to file Post 302582431 by Filter500 on Friday 16th of December 2011 12:45:31 AM
Old 12-16-2011
Write array contents to file

Hi,

I have a bash script that currently holds some data. I am trying to write all the contents to a file called temp.txt.

I am using
Code:
echo ${array[@]} > temp.txt

The problem that I am experiencing is that the elements are being written horizontally in the file. I want them written vertically.

This code writes it correctly but it appends the file which I don't want it to do.

Code:
for j in "${array[@]}"
do
  echo $j >>temp.txt
done

By changing the line to echo $j > temp.txt, the file only contains the last array element.



Example

array[0] = 5
array[1] = 6
array[2] = 1
array[3] = 3

File contents

5 6 1 3

What I want is

5
6
1
3

Thanks.

Last edited by Franklin52; 12-16-2011 at 11:59 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
 

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