Shell script arrays

Question

I would like to set array elements with loop:

for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
do
array[$i] = 'sg'
done

echo $array[0]
echo $array[1]

So it does not work. How to..?

Answer 1

Remove the spaces:

array[$i]='sg'

Also, you should access the elements as^*:

echo ${array[0]}

See e.g. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/arrays.html.

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_{* Thanks to @Mat for reminding me of this!}

Answer 2

It should work if you had declared your variable as array, and print it properly:

declare -a array
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
do
    array[$i]="sg"
done
echo ${array[0]} 
echo ${array[1]} 

See it in action here.

HTH

Answer 3

there is problem with your echo statement: give ${array[0]} and ${array[1]}