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Old 02-22-2005
Declaring Local Arrays

I have some function

function()
{
fileNamelist=( `find Uploads -name "somePattern" | tr '\n' ' '` )
}

but "local fileNamelist" makes it variable.

How do I declare fileNameList as a local array in BASH?
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Old 02-22-2005
typeset -a fileNamelist=$(find Uploads -name "somePattern")
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