Hi John, Thank you.
It seems to work like a charm. On 11/30/05, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:09 pm, Jayesh Jayan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't > > work. > > > > Below is a sample script which I used. > > > > ****************************************************** > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > array=( zero one two three four); > > echo "Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > ****************************************************** > > > > It works fine on RedHat server. > > > > Below is the output. > > > > # sh array.sh > > Elements in array0: zero one two three four > > > > Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. > > > > -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh > > aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")") > > > > Please guide me on how to use arrays on freebsd too. > > sh != bash > > You can either install bash from ports, or you can write your scripts in > sh > without using bash extensions. For example, with sh you can do things > like: > > array="zero one to three four" > for x in $array; do > echo $x > done > > However, you can't easily get the count of items. You could maybe do > something like: > > set $array > echo "$# items" > > but that's somewhat hackish. > > -- > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org > -- Jayesh Jayan "The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux." Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
