HashMap in shell script with File path

Question

I am trying to declare a hash map in shell script containing a file path as key and some variable as value. Something like this

fileVarMap=( ["Dir1/file1.txt"]="myVar1"  ["Dir2/file2.txt"]="myVar2" )

I am getting an Error called...syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator

How can this be achieved?

Thanks in Advance.

Got One way to solve this stackoverflow.com/a/4444841/1350792 — Aryan
– Aryan, Commented May 23, 2013 at 7:53

Eric Citaire · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-23 09:03:27Z

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If you are using Bash, man page says :

Associative arrays are created using declare -A name.

So, you should try this :

declare -A fileVarMap
fileVarMap=( ["Dir1/file1.txt"]="myVar1"  ["Dir2/file2.txt"]="myVar2" )
echo ${fileVarMap["Dir1/file1.txt"]}

answered May 23, 2013 at 9:03

Eric Citaire

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Would you please provide a way to iterate this as key value :)