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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/06/14 17:47, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:<br>
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<div>I have a variable that contains a path. Now I want to copy every single directory to an array like this:</div>
<div>x=./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno</div>
<div># Do something here to copy x to the array y…</div>
<div>echo ${y[3]} # Should print ”def”.</div>
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<div>Here's the result of my best (?) try:</div>
<div>$ x="./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno"; IFS='/'; y=$x; echo ${y[0]}; echo ${#y[@]}; IFS=$'\n'<br>
. abc def ghi jkl mno<br>
1<br>
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Try this instead:<br>
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x="./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno"; IFS='/'; y=($x); echo ${y[*]}; echo ${#y[@]}; IFS=$'\n'<br>
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For me, this produces:<br>
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. abc def ghi jkl mno<br>
6<br>
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Regards,<br>
Tony.<br>
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