Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi.

I'm new to scripting / programming and was wondering what the best way to output all mounted storage devices and their names to an array would be ? I would like to achieve this using the bash shell.

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Jonno

Ok, so I think I undertsand your reply... Let me get this straight.

Line 1 we are telling bash to separate fields based on new lines.
Line 2 we are doing command substitution on "mount" and storing the output int the array "array"
Line 3 we are setting the $IFS variable back to default ???

Only problem is for some reason I only get the first line of the mount output stored in the array when i do "echo $array"

Any suggestions ?

From the bash man page:

Code:

Referencing an array variable without a  subscript
       is equivalent to referencing element zero.

(that's the first element)

Use:

Code:

${array[0]}
${array[1]}
etc.

to access individual elements, or

Code:

${array[@]}

to access all elements.

For more information, check out the man page for your shell, i.e. bash, under section Arrays.

Many thanks to both of you for your quick and thorough responses to my noob questions.

Regards,
Jonnno