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Old 08-26-2010
Multiple Variables in Array from Existing Directories
I would like to extract directories from a specific place and keep them into an array of variables to run functions into it. Example,

Code:
bash-3.00$ls
adrian  bryan caren derrick

I want to keep each directory names into a variable

adrian --> document[0]
bryan --> document[1]
caren --> document[2]
derrick --> document[3]

How do I do that in a shell script?
# 2  
Old 08-26-2010
For bash you can try:
Code:
$> declare -a ARRAY
$> ARRAY=( `ls` )

# For single elements:
$> echo ${ARRAY[1]}
# For all elements:
$> echo ${ARRAY[*]}

If it is ok to just have a list instead of an array you could pipe the output of ls into a while/read loop to work on the single elements.
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# 3  
Old 08-26-2010
Code:
x=0;for i in adrian bryan caren derrick; do document[x]=`echo "$i"`; echo "${document[x]} --> document[$x]";let x=x+1; done
adrian --> document[0]
bryan --> document[1]
caren --> document[2]
derrick --> document[3]

# 4  
Old 08-30-2010
This is exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks!
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