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You already know what [ ] do if you've used if-statements before. It's actually an independent thing, if just makes use of it. It returns success when the statement within is true, or error when...

I do not understand how to split a string at whitespace and then get it into an array.With bash >= 4, if I recall correctly:

$ _string='a b c'
$ read -a _array <<< "$s"
$ declare -p _array...

I cannot figure out what is in those arrays. Parsing ls into an array, and find into a string variable, is very likely to eventually break. It is best to operate using NUL delimited filenames...

This is the only wrong one. It assigns only 'one' to the variable ARRAY... then calls 'two' as a command with 'three' as its parameter.



Bad sustitution? Where does it come from?
Oh! This is...

If I understood you correctly, your problem is that the members of the archive are using an absolute path and you want them to be relative, so that when you extract them the newly-created pathnames...

i guess g is ignored by ls, the below one will work anyway

ls -1t|tail -1

1 lists the output of ls as a column
t sorts it by time
tail -1 lists the last item in the list