Shell arrays are not defined by the POSIX standards and do not appear in all shells (even in all shells based on Bourne shell syntax). The Bourne shell (on which most current shells other than the csh based shells) did not include arrays. A future revision of the POSIX standards may include arrays, but no one has proposed adding that feature yet.
Note also that to declare an indexed array in bash, you use:
.
With a 1993 or later Korn shell you declare an indexed array with:
and you declare an associative array with:
.
I think some recent versions of bash also have associative arrays, but the version of bash available on macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 (the OS I use) does not.
I don't know what syntax other shells that support arrays use when declaring them.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-23-2018 at 05:15 PM..
Reason: Correct typeset -a for indexed ksh arrays.
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