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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving files into dirs corresponding to dates Post 302948095 by newbie2010 on Thursday 25th of June 2015 03:20:59 PM
Old 06-25-2015
To make it simpler - I want to use an array to cd to different directories. I do want it to be in array format.
Code:
#! /bin/bash
i=0
while read line
do
    array[ $i ]="$line"
    (( i++ ))
done < <(ls)

I have tried various ways, I just get "directory not found." I assume this is because cd is a built in command. However, if I do this, I do get the directory to change
Code:
#! /bin/bash

i=0
while read line
do
    array[ $i ]="$line"
    (( i++ ))
done < <(ls)

cd  $(echo ${array[1]})
echo ${array[1]}}
pwd

Are there any ideas of how I can get it to run? At this point I can get this to work by doing cd $(echo ${array[1]}) cd $(echo ${array[2]}) cd $(echo ${array[3]}) and then typing the command below that, etc. But there are 100 elements of the array and this is too much work to cd each time.
 

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LEARN ABOUT PHP

array_shift

ARRAY_SHIFT(3)								 1							    ARRAY_SHIFT(3)

array_shift - Shift an element off the beginning of array

SYNOPSIS

       mixed array_shift (array  &$array)

DESCRIPTION

       array_shift(3)  shifts  the  first value of the $array off and returns it, shortening the $array by one element and moving everything down.
       All numerical array keys will be modified to start counting from zero while literal keys won't be touched.

       Note

	      This function will reset(3) the array pointer of the input array after use.

PARAMETERS

	      o $array
		- The input array.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns the shifted value, or NULL if $array is empty or is not an array.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      array_shift(3) example

	      <?php
	      $stack = array("orange", "banana", "apple", "raspberry");
	      $fruit = array_shift($stack);
	      print_r($stack);
	      ?>

	      The above example will output:

	      Array
	      (
		  [0] => banana
		  [1] => apple
		  [2] => raspberry
	      )

	       and orange will be assigned to $fruit.

SEE ALSO

       array_unshift(3), array_push(3), array_pop(3).

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