We will discuss passing arrays as arguments to functions. Pre-requistites Knowing how to declare an array and set its elements Knowing how to get the indices of an array Knowing how to cycle through an array Knowing how to copy an array Understanding indirect expansion Setup This is the same setup as the previous post…
Pre-requistites Knowing how to declare an array and set its elements Knowing how to get the indices of an array Knowing how to cycle through an array Setup This is the same setup as the previous post Let’s make a shell script. In your favourite editor type #!/bin/bash And save it somewhere as arrays.sh. Now…
In the previous shell array post we discussed the declaration and dereferencing of arrays in shell scripts. This time we will take a look at the different ways of looping through an array. Setup This is the same setup as the previous post Let’s make a shell script. In your favourite editor type #!/bin/bash And…
During my attempts at making a recursive shell script that ouputs a graphical tree display of a directory structure I ran into some trouble with arrays, so I decided to delve deeper into arrays to better understand them. Setup Let’s make a shell script. In your favourite editor type #!/bin/bash Save it somewhere as arrays.sh.…
As a linux server user we are, probably, always interacting with the computer using a shell. But what is a shell? In this post we will discuss the following: What a shell is. How to see available shells. How to change your login shell. How to see your login shell. How to change your current…