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Old 09-30-2014
Trouble Assigning Variable with Function

OSX 10.9

Good morning/afternoon/evening.

I'm hoping to get some insight on assigning a variable when calling a function. The code below looks at my array and checks if the path exists. My actual code will have multiple arrays and I would like to define a specific array when I call the function, but I am getting a bad substitution error.

This is the code without assigning variables in function
Code:
## MY ARRAY
array=(
/Library/Application\ Support/
/Library/LaunchAgents/folder_that_doesnt_exist
)
## MY FUNCTION
results () 
{
    for i in "${!array[@]}"; do 
       if [[ -e "${array[$i]}" ]]; then 
       echo "**Found**: "${array[$i]}""
       else echo "Not Found: "${array[$i]}""
       fi
    done
}

results

##Output:
**Found**: /Library/Application Support/
Not Found: /Library/LaunchAgents/folder_that_doesnt_exist

Example attempt of assigning the variables, which failed:

Code:
array=(
/Library/Application\ Support/
/Library/LaunchAgents/folder_that_doesnt_exist
)
results () 
{
    for i in $1; do 
       if [[ -e $2 ]]; then 
       echo "**Found**: $2"
       else echo "Not Found: $2"
       fi
    done
}
results "${!array[@]}" "${array[$i]}"

 

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