Apart from changing lines 4 and 10 to "#!/bin/bash --posix" and cleaning up a bit, including removal of cout...
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BTW cout removed because of RCs of 0 being printed to the window...
Last edited by wisecracker; 12-01-2013 at 04:11 PM..
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The shebang, #!/bin/bash ... is irrelevant; the system(3) library function will use /bin/sh. The OP's /bin/sh does not support the necessary features (arrays, indirect vars).
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The solution with
works as a dream. It is not which command is used, just
is not accepted
The parenthesis used in a array declaration remain a problem. Should they be quoted, unquoted, backslashed?
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Is there a work around the array issue? I need an 1d array. The only alternative are variable of variables , which work (the problem solved in this forum by wisecracker)
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on ubuntu with g++ it does not work. If it works on Mac OS X perhaps is a matter of compiler. If yes is there a suitable c++ compiler on linux?
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