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Old 07-16-2013
Display array contents on a new line

ksh
eg
arrayname=(1 2 3 4 5)

I'm trying to display the individual contents of an array on a new line without using a loop, using one line of code.

output
1
2
3
4
5
# 2  
Old 07-16-2013
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
arrayname=(1 2 3 4 5)
echo ${arrayname[*]} | tr " " "\n"

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Old 07-16-2013
Thanks, that exactly what I was after.

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if an arrays contents where

array[0]="the quick"
array[1]="brown fox"
array[2]="etc etc"

How would be able to display the elements on individual lines?
# 4  
Old 07-16-2013
Better way, using pure shell builtins and splitting on array elements:
Code:
printf "%s\n" "${ARRAY[@]}"

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