Re: shell script kommands

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> also sprach Timeboy (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:41:08PM +0200):
>> Is there a possibility to do this with a bash script?

> #!/bin/bash

> cnt=0

> while read i; do
>  var[cnt]=$i
>  cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
> done

> echo "there are $i object(s) in array var[]."

or you could do

#!/bin/sh

eval $(
	sed -n "=;s/\([^']*\)\('*\)/'\1'\"\2\"/gp;$=" |
		sed -n ':s;N;s/^/var/;s/\n/=/p;n;$s/^/cnt=/p;bs'
)

echo "there are $cnt object(s) in array var[]."
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