"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:27:16AM -0500, Jeremy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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
Thank you!! This is exactly what I needed! I don't know why it never crossed my mind to look at the bash manpage. I guess because none of the bash scripting books I have never mentioned arrays, so I didn't think it was even an available facility for bash. Anyway, thanks again! Jeremy
