MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> also sprach Timeboy (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:41:08PM +0200):
>> Is there a possibility to do this with a bash script?
> #!/bin/bash
> cnt=0
> while read i; do
> var[cnt]=$i
> cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
> done
> echo "there are $i object(s) in array var[]."
or you could do
#!/bin/sh
eval $(
sed -n "=;s/\([^']*\)\('*\)/'\1'\"\2\"/gp;$=" |
sed -n ':s;N;s/^/var/;s/\n/=/p;n;$s/^/cnt=/p;bs'
)
echo "there are $cnt object(s) in array var[]."
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