Copy variable to array

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2014-06-01 19:02 GMT+02:00 Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>:

>  On 01/06/14 17:47, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>
>  I have a variable that contains a path. Now I want to copy every single
> directory to an array like this:
> x=./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno
> # Do something here to copy x to the array y…
> echo ${y[3]} # Should print ”def”.
>
>  Here's the result of my best (?) try:
> $ x="./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno"; IFS='/'; y=$x; echo ${y[0]}; echo ${#y[@]};
> IFS=$'\n'
> . abc def ghi jkl mno
> 1
> $
>
> Try this instead:
>
> x="./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno"; IFS='/'; y=($x); echo ${y[*]}; echo ${#y[@]};
> IFS=$'\n'
>
> For me, this produces:
>
>
> . abc def ghi jkl mno
> 6
>
>
Yes, I found out eventually. Thanks for replying.
Seems like ${y[*]} is the same thing as ${y[@]}, by the way.


Johnny Rosenberg



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> Tony.
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