If you're working with a large amount of data in your Bash scripts, arrays will make your life a lot easier. Some people get intimidated by the syntax. But once learned, it will make your scripts more ...

I'm trying to expand one item in an array into a new array, like so:<BR><BR>Ar1[1]="a,b,c,d,e"; # <--this varies - might have one to many items<BR><BR>What I want is the equivalent of ...

Have you ever been confused by the different ways to use Bash arrays? Or perhaps you're just learning Bash, and they're next on your list? Bash arrays can act strangely depending on how you use them.

If you're used to a "standard" *NIX shell you may not be familiar with bash's array feature. Although not as powerful as similar constructs in the P languages (Perl, Python, and PHP) and others, they ...

I have a text file contining a list of strings, one string per line. The number of lines in this file is unknown, but not large (less than 50). Space characters in these strings are quoted with '\' (i ...