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Old 07-18-2012
storing multiple values in a array variable
Am using a find command in my script .The output may be one or more. I need to store those values in a array and need to access those. Am unable to find the solution . Any help on this will be helpful.

if [condition]
< code>
else a=<find command output which gives the file name either 1 or more>
if 1 or more values need to perform task on each value. Since my code is working fine for one value got stuck up with multiple values.
rogerben
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Old 07-18-2012
What's your system? What's your shell?

Storing huge lists of things in the shell is a bad idea. It wastes memory and CPU time, and the size limit for shell variables can often be smaller than you think. Some shells only give you 4 kilobytes -- a page or two of text at most. Do you truly need to store them all? Will a loop do?

Code:
find ... | while read FILE
do
        echo "Processing $FILE"
done

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