Unix Shell - Re: Catching results of a command in to array in shell

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Re: Catching results of a command in to array in shell

Janis Papanagnou

2006-02-20, 5:54 pm

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2006-02-20, sreenivasulu vunnam wrote:
>
>
>
> You don't want to do that; 'ls' is unnecessary, and will break your
> script if the filenames contain spaces or other characters special
> to the shell.
>
> Do you really need it in an array? You can do, for example:
>
> for file in *.xml
> do
> : ...
> done
>
> If you want it in an array, and are using bash2+ or ksh93:
>
> array=( *.xml )
>

Or use

set -- *.xml

and access the $# elements through $1, $2, ...

Janis