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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Array in Bash! Post 302606023 by Corona688 on Friday 9th of March 2012 11:02:29 AM
Old 03-09-2012
A string with spaces in it is not the same thing as an array.

I don't think your if-statement if [ $1 ] does precisely what you think it does.

I'd take a slightly different approach:

Code:
WHERE=""
# $# is the number of arguments.
# While the number of arguments is greater than 0, keep looping.
while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]
do
        case "$1" in
        -n)    WHERE="n"             ;;
        -m)    WHERE="name"          ;;

        *) # All other arguments

                case "$WHERE" in
                n)        n="$n $1"     ;;
                name)   name="$name $1" ;;
                *)        ;;
                esac

                ;;
        esac

        shift
done

 

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LIBBASH(7)							  libbash Manual							LIBBASH(7)

NAME

     libbash -- A bash shared libraries package.

DESCRIPTION

     libbash  is  a package that enables bash dynamic-like shared libraries. Actually its a tool for managing bash scripts whose functions you may
     want to load and use in scripts of your own.

     It contains a 'dynamic loader' for the shared libraries ( ldbash(1)), a configuration tool (ldbashconfig(8)), and some libraries.

     Using ldbash(1) you are able to load loadable bash libraries, such as getopts(1) and hashstash(1).  A bash shared library that can be  loaded
     using
     ldbash(1) must answer 4 requirments:

     1.     It must be installed in $LIBBASH_PREFIX/lib/bash (default is /usr/lib/bash).

     2.     It must contain a line that begins with '#EXPORT='.  That line will contain (after the '=') a list of functions that the library
	    exports.  I.e. all the function that will be usable after loading that library will be listed in that line.

     3.     It must contain a line that begins with '#REQUIRE='.  That line will contain (after the '=') a list of bash libraries that are
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