Questions tagged [bash-array]
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Why is "${ARRAY[@]}" expanded into multiple words, when it's quoted?
I don't understand why "${ARRAY[@]}" gets expanded to multiple words, when it's quoted ("...")?
Take this example:
IFS=":" read -ra ARRAY <<< "foo:bar:baz"
for e in "${ARRAY[@]}"; do echo $...
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Cannot delete bash associative array element
Consider an associative array in bash (versions 5.2.15(1)-release and 5.2.21(1)-release):
declare -A ufs=(); ufs["one"]=1; ufs["two"]=2; ufs["three"]=3
printf '> %s\n' ...
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How to unset range of array in Bash
I'm trying to delete range of array element but it's fail..
My array
root@ubuntu:~/work# echo ${a[@]}
cocacola.com airtel.com pepsi.com
Print 0-1 array looks ok
root@ubuntu:~/work# echo ${a[@]::2}
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How to pass an array as an argument to a function
In the below shell script I am passing an integer and a string array to a print function which should print each parameter separately, but I'm not able to. I don't want make a reference of passed ...
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How can I take a sub-array in bash of the first N elements of a string array with elements containing spaces?
This question is similar to this one but it differs from it:
Consider this array with string elements which may contain spaces:
a@W:$ arr=("eins" "zwei" "eins plus zwei" &...
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pipe to uniq from a variable not showing the desired output
I have a pipeline using array jobs and need to change the number of inputs for some steps. I thought about testing uniq since the only part changing in my folders are the last four characters (the hap ...
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Creating and appending to an array, mapfile vs arr+=(input) same thing or am I missing something?
Is there a case where mapfile has benefits over arr+=(input)?
Simple examples
mapfile array name, arr:
mkdir {1,2,3}
mapfile -t arr < <(ls)
declare -p arr
output:
declare -a arr=([0])="1&...
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bash - slice quoted substrings delimited by spaces into array
following example:
string=" 'f o o' 'f oo' 'fo o' "
array=($string)
echo "${array[0]}"
outputs:
'f
while the expected output is:
'f o o'
The only solution I came with is by ...
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Bash - reverse an array
Is there a simple way to reverse an array?
#!/bin/bash
array=(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
echo "${array[@]}"
so I would get: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
instead of: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Replace prefix string from lines in a file, and put into a bash array
In the file groupAfiles.txt are the lines:
file14
file2
file4
file9
I need a way to convert them to remove file and add /dev/loop and put them all in one line with a space between them.
/dev/loop14 /...
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How to extract and delete contents of a zip archive simultaneously?
I want to download and extract a large zip archive (>180 GB) containing multiple small files of a single file format onto an SSD, but I don't have enough storage for both the zip archive and the ...
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Why does printing an array with @ using printf in bash only print the first element?
I have an array
snapshots=(1 2 3 4)
When I run
printf "${snapshots[*]}\n"
It prints as expected
1 2 3 4
But when I run
printf "${snapshots[@]}\n"
It just prints
1
without a ...
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bash array multiplication using bc
I am trying to multiply array values with values derived from the multiplication of a loop index using bc.
#!/bin/bash
n=10.0
bw=(1e-3 2.5e-4 1.11e-4 6.25e-5 4.0e-5 2.78e-5 2.04e-5 1.56e-5 1.29e-5 1....
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Run a command using arguments that come from an array
Suppose I have a graphical program named app. Usage example: app -t 'first tab' -t 'second tab' opens two 'tabs' in that program.
The question is: how can I execute the command (i.e. app) from within ...
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Bash: converting a string with both spaces and quotes to an array
I have a function (not created by me) that outputs a series of strings inside of quotes:
command <args>
“Foo”
“FooBar”
“Foo Bar”
“FooBar/Foo Bar”
When I try to assign it to an array (Bash; BSD/...
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Shell script with a for loop and an “array”
How can I use this shell script with for loop and an array.
I would like to call create condition for quality gate creation of sonarqube with a for loop. Example:
#!/bin/bash --login
echo "...
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Access values of associative array whose name is passed as argument inside bash function
I've some associative arrays in a bash script which I need to pass to a function in which I need to access the keys and values as well.
declare -A gkp=( \
["arm64"]="ARM-64-bit" ...
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How do I select an array to loop through from an array of arrays?
#!/usr/bin/bash
ARGENT=("Nous devons économiser de l'argent."
"Je dois économiser de l'argent.")
BIENETRE=("Comment vas-tu?" "Tout va bien ?")
aoarrs=("${...
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What happens if I start a bash array with a big index?
I was trying to create a bash "multidimensional" array, I saw the ideas on using associative arrays, but I thought the simplest way to do it would be the following:
for i in 0 1 2
do
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Unable to append to array using parallel
I can't append to an array when I use parallel, no issues using a for loop.
Parallel example:
append() { arr+=("$1"); }
export -f append
parallel -j 0 append ::: {1..4}
declare -p arr
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Iterating over array elements with gnu parallel
I have an input file, names.txt, with the 1 word per line:
apple
abble
aplle
With my bash script I am trying to achieve the following output:
apple and apple
apple and abble
apple and aplle ...
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Sort file array list in bash by date and bypass argument limit
So, I have a file array list in a bash shell, and I want to sort all the files in the array by the date modified, starting with the oldest being the first one in the array. However, I don't want to ...
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Bash 4.4 local readonly array variable scoping: bug?
The following script fails when run with bash 4.4.20(1)
#!/bin/bash
bar() {
local args=("y")
}
foo() {
local -r args=("x")
bar
}
foo
with error line 3: args: readonly ...
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Completed stumped by trying to use a decimal value in an array for Bash
Here is some simple test code.
#!bin/bash
cpm=(0 1 0.094)
lv=1
attack=5
defense=9
stamina=16
echo $((cpm[lv]))
mycpm=$((cpm[lv]))
#mycpm=`echo "0.094" | bc -l`
cq=`echo "$attack*$...
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gnu parallel with bash array
I trying to run command recon-all with GNU parallel freesurfer preproc i have a bash array of list of patients to run 8 patents simultaneously:
root@4d8896dfec6c:/tmp# echo ${ids[@]}
G001 G002 G003 ...
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How to find the user input time lies between which two time frame stored in array in bash script [duplicate]
let the given array is array=(12:45 01:30 02:02 02:55 03:55)
so how to find the time let, 12:50 is lie between which two time frame(with index) is bash script
array=(12:45 01:30 02:02 02:55 03:55)
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Array Declaration: Double Quotes & Parentheses
Perhaps this is a stupid question but two hours on Google hasn't turned up anything on point.
Simply, does a difference exist in Bash between:
X="
a
b
c
"
and
X=(
a
b
c
)
The former ...
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How to slice an indexed array to obtain all elements between the first and last index?
I have an array tokens which contains tokens=( first one two three last ). How do I obtain the values ( one two three ) if I do not know how many numbers are in the array? I want to access everything ...
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How to separate long string into a string array with IFS and read, or any other method
I have a long line that comes as output from a git command: a=$(git submodule foreach git status). It looks like this:
a = "Entering 'Dir1/Subdir' On branch master Your branch is up to date with '...
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Bash - How to make a function "delete only non-matching array from user inputs"
Suppose, I have 1 file in a folder named B.py
Using this script, I make 3 files within that folder. The files are A.py B.py C.py.
read -r -p "Enter the filenames: " -a arr
for filenames in &...
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How to pass an array as function argument but with other extra parameters?
The following post solution works as expected:
How to pass an array as function argument?
Therefore - from his answer:
function copyFiles() {
arr=("$@")
for i in "${arr[@]}"...
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Bash's read builtin errors on a string-based timeout option specification but not an array-based one. Why?
In reading through the source to fff to learn more about Bash programming, I saw a timeout option passed to read as an array here:
read "${read_flags[@]}" -srn 1 && key "$REPLY&...
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grep results with spaces and special chars
I am trying to grab results from lshw and add them to a a bash array so I can create a new string. I am using
lshw -class disk |egrep -A 7 .'-d' |grep 'product' |cut -b 17-
the output looks like this
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echoing value in same indexes of 2 arrays simulataneously
I have 2 arrays to prcoess in bash script simultaneously.
First array contains sort of lables.
Second array contains values, as under
LABELS=(label1 label2 label3 labe4 )
VALUES=(91 18 7 4)
What's ...
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Bash fails to work with dynamic array name (but it understands it)
I'm doing a script in bash where I need to declare arrays inside loops, so I made it like this:
variable=suffix
declare -a prefix_$variable='(item1 item2)'
then I should be able to use "prefix_$...
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Difference between two array printing methods in bash [duplicate]
I have an array declared in my script.
NAME[0]=Deepak
NAME[1]=Renuka
NAME[2]=Joe
NAME[3]=Alex
NAME[4]=Amir
echo "All Index: ${NAME[*]}"
echo "All Index: ${NAME[@]}"
There are two ...
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How do I get this code to evaluate all arms of if-else? Why does Bash seem to interpret the characters that I input as integers? [duplicate]
The last elif arm does not get executed:
#!/usr/bin/bash
searches=("feet"
"axilas"
"lactant")
length=${#searches[@]}
searchFunction() {
echo "Enter the respective ...
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What is the difference between ${array[*]} and ${array[@]}? When use each one over the other? [duplicate]
With the following code:
#! /bin/bash
declare -a arr=("element1"
"element2" "element3&...
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Why isn't the `else` arm executed in this Bash script (for loop through an array)?
The following code is meant to look for subdirectories in ~/Downloads. I run it with . ./script.sh. It will find them even when the user submits an incomplete name.
#!/usr/bin/bash
echo -e "\...
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Matching a variable in order to pull value from an array
The script will echo the different values stored in an array based on user input. However, the output is not correct and the wrong value is echoed.
AA_P=/root/run_Scripts/AA_P_run.sh
AA_S=/root/...
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How to work with arrays of space separated strings in shell script?
I with to monitor if my access points pingable and store results into 0-1 string
I wrote a script but it works wrong
#/bin/bash
access_points=("tplink2" "redmi1")
#results=("...
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Why a bash array remains empty if I pipe the result of a for loop, used to populate it, into zenity --progress?
I have an array with some data:
array1=( AAA BBB CCC DDD )
I want to populate an array of results from calling a certain API with the data in array1 and at the same time I want to show the progress ...
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For-loop - appending to arrays with iterator in the array name
I have the following problem. I have an array arr with some values. I want to sort each value into a set of different - and already declared - arrays earr$j, i.e. arr[0] into earr1, arr[1] into earr2 ...
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for loop and appending over list of arrays
I am new to Bash scripting and presently find myself dealing with a small problem in working with for loops, arrays and variable assignment/substitution which I do not know how to solve. Since I am ...
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bash scripting problem creating array [duplicate]
I'm trying to make an array in a bash script. I keep running into a problem even though I feel like I've followed tutorials correctly.
#!/bin/bash
myArray=("cat" "dog" "mouse&...
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Bash - mix/merge/combine two different arrays with same length
I have two different arrays with the same length:
s=(c d e f g a b c)
f=(1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5)
how can I mix/merge/combine this two arrays, so I would get this output:
c1 d2 e3 f1 g2 a3 b4 c5
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Adding options using bash arrays
I am using a bash script to call rsync commands. Have decided to collect some options in an array called oser. The idea is to look at what's different in
the two invocations and put that into the ...
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Getting an array into a parallel bash script
I'm having a bit of difficulty understanding parallel procedures. Atm I'm trying to mass wipe hard drives, so have created a script, however it won't run in parallel.
for i in "${!wipe[@]}"; ...
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Can't access elements of an array built from readarray
I'm trying to build a basic REPL in bash.
The script dynamically populates a list of files in a directory for the user to run.
File space:
|
|\ scripts/
|| script1.sh
|| script2.sh
|
\ shell/
| ...
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How do I split a string by a delimiter resulting in an unknown number of parts and how can I collect the results in an array?
I need to process some strings containing paths. How do I split such a string by / as delimiter resulting in an unknown number of path-parts and how do I, in the end, extract the resulting path-parts?
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