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Old 04-05-2009
Problem assigning variables to arrays
Hi All,
I have a problem assigning variables to script.I have a script in which i have a while loop now i have to assign some values obtained to an array which will be used later in the script.Can anyone help how to do that.
At present my scrot looks like:

Code:
 
co=0
pco=0
co=`cat /tmp/highcpu | wc -l`
pco=`expr $co + 1`
i=1
while [ $i -lt $pco ]
do
var1=`cat /tmp/highcpu | awk -F" " '{print $1}' | head -$i | tail -1`
cat /tmp/prsta | grep -i $var1 >>  /tmp/commonpid
cat /tmp/commonpid | grep -i $var1 |sort -t/ -k2n >> /tmp/commonpid_sort
i=`expr $i + 1`
done

At present i am redirecting the output of this line:
Code:
 
cat /tmp/commonpid | grep -i $var1 |sort -t/ -k2n >> /tmp/commonpid_sort

to a file as seen above.
Instead i want to assign those values to an array so that it can be used later.

Any idea how to do that.
Thanks
# 2  
Old 04-05-2009
post the o/p of this command
Code:
cat /tmp/commonpid | grep -i $var1 |sort -t/ -k2n

# 3  
Old 04-05-2009
The out put of
Quote:
cat /tmp/commonpid | grep -i $var1 |sort -t/ -k2n
is:

Quote:
566 java/372
566 java/369
566 java/365
566 java/364
566 java/376
566 java/374
566 java/4
566 java/345
566 java/335
566 java/330
566 java/352
566 java/359
566 java/328
566 java/351
566 java/311
7850 java/71
7850 java/77
7850 java/4
7850 java/68
7850 java/66
7850 java/34
7850 java/49
7850 java/36
7850 java/31
7850 java/67
7850 java/11
7850 java/56
7850 java/27
7850 java/51
7850 java/70
7850 java/17
7850 java/29
7850 java/72
# 4  
Old 04-05-2009
if you wanna use it one by one then directly pass it to the for loop or while loop
Code:
for i in `cat /tmp/commonpid | grep -i $var1 |sort -t/ -k2n` ; do
....
done
while read value ; do
...
done < `cat /tmp/commonpid | grep -i $var1 |sort -t/ -k2n`

# 5  
Old 04-06-2009
Hey thanks vidyadhar for your reply.
I am a newbie to scripting and i want to work with arrays but i am not so comfortable.
Could you please explain how to assign variables or output of some command(like ls or contents of a file after doing cat) to arrays and how those arrays work under for loop.?
Thanks for your patience.
 
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