on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:27:16AM -0500, Jeremy (thinker5555@yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry about this being so OT, but I've been searching around in
> documentation (man pages, books, scripting HOWTOs, etc) for a several hours
> now, and I can't find anything that will answer my question.
>
> I have a series of variables that I'm importing to a bash script from another
> file, and I need a way to run a loop to echo the contents of each one in
> sequence. As an example, say this file has the following:
>
> var1=data1
> var2=data2
> var3=data3
> var4=data4
>
> Is there some way I can make my script start with var1 and echo each one
> through var4 WITHOUT hardcoding each seperate variable into the script?
$ man bash
search ^ *Arrays
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