How to represent list or arrays in a shell script?

Question

I have a JSON document like this -

{\"pp\": [0, 1024, 4, 1028, 8]}

Now how do I represent this [0, 1024, 4, 1028, 8] in a shell script?

something like below? does shell script have lists? And then how do I iterate that and print out the result in a shell script?

#!/bin/bash

PRIMARY_PARTITION=[0, 1024, 4, 1028, 8]

glenn jackman · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-24 04:25:22Z

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PRIMARY_PARTITION=(0 1024 4 1028 8)

Elements are ${PRIMARY_PARTITION[0]}, ${PRIMARY_PARTITION[1]}, etc. The entire array is "${PRIMARY_PARTITION[@]}".

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answered Dec 24, 2013 at 0:30

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mklement0 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-24 00:30:05Z

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PRIMARY_PARTITION=(0 1024 4 1028 8)

for el in "${PRIMARY_PARTITION[@]}"; do echo "[$el]"; done

answered Dec 24, 2013 at 0:30

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