Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi Marco, Yes you are correct. It is as you have given :) Thank you. On 11/30/05, Marco Gigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39:15AM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) You should use: bash array.sh On FreeBSD sh != bash $ ls -l `which sh` -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 763316 Sep 3 08:37 /bin/sh $ ls -l `which bash` -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 471136 Jun 12 01:13 /usr/local/bin/bash Cheers -- Marco Gigante -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) Please guide me on how to use arrays on freebsd too. -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39:15AM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) Please guide me on how to use arrays on freebsd too. Bash (installed via ports) is in /usr/local/bin. Change the first line to be #!/usr/local/bin/bash and chmod 750 (at least) the script. This way you can just ./aa.sh and be done. If you prefer to run it as you have shown above don't run sh aa.sh, instead do bash aa.sh, assuming bash is in your path. sh aa.sh will try and run the script through sh (which is not bash). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ls -la foo.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 wxs wxs 97 Nov 29 16:26 foo.sh* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ cat foo.sh #!/usr/local/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ bash ./foo.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ./foo.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ sh ./foo.sh ./foo.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- WXS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Jayesh Jayan wrote this message on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39 +0530: Below is the output. # sh array.sh Install the bash port (as root: pkg_add -r bas), and then try again using bash... FreeBSD doesn't have bash installed by default (and hence, /bin/sh is not bash like it is usually on Linux), and our sh doesn't have that feature... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:09 pm, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) Please guide me on how to use arrays on freebsd too. sh != bash You can either install bash from ports, or you can write your scripts in sh without using bash extensions. For example, with sh you can do things like: array=zero one to three four for x in $array; do echo $x done However, you can't easily get the count of items. You could maybe do something like: set $array echo $# items but that's somewhat hackish. -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ Power Users Use the Power to Serve = http://www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi Wesley, Thank you. I understood it completely. The explanation was great. Thank you once again. On 11/30/05, Wesley Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39:15AM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) Please guide me on how to use arrays on freebsd too. Bash (installed via ports) is in /usr/local/bin. Change the first line to be #!/usr/local/bin/bash and chmod 750 (at least) the script. This way you can just ./aa.sh and be done. If you prefer to run it as you have shown above don't run sh aa.sh, instead do bash aa.sh, assuming bash is in your path. sh aa.sh will try and run the script through sh (which is not bash). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ls -la foo.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 wxs wxs 97 Nov 29 16:26 foo.sh* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ cat foo.sh #!/usr/local/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ bash ./foo.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ./foo.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ sh ./foo.sh ./foo.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- WXS -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi John, I already have bash installed from ports. It is bash 2.05b. On 11/30/05, John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote this message on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39 +0530: Below is the output. # sh array.sh Install the bash port (as root: pkg_add -r bas), and then try again using bash... FreeBSD doesn't have bash installed by default (and hence, /bin/sh is not bash like it is usually on Linux), and our sh doesn't have that feature... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi John, Thank you. It seems to work like a charm. On 11/30/05, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:09 pm, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) Please guide me on how to use arrays on freebsd too. sh != bash You can either install bash from ports, or you can write your scripts in sh without using bash extensions. For example, with sh you can do things like: array=zero one to three four for x in $array; do echo $x done However, you can't easily get the count of items. You could maybe do something like: set $array echo $# items but that's somewhat hackish. -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ Power Users Use the Power to Serve = http://www.FreeBSD.org -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Jayesh Jayan wrote this message on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:19 +0530: I already have bash installed from ports. It is bash 2.05b. But below you were running sh, and not bash... if you do sh array.sh, it will not reinterpet the #!/bin/bash line, and re-exec it with the program in part because /bin/bash doesn't exist on the system, as bash is installed in /usr/local/bin/bash... Please try with: bash array.sh instead, and see if that works.. On 11/30/05, John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote this message on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39 +0530: Below is the output. # sh array.sh Install the bash port (as root: pkg_add -r bas), and then try again using bash... FreeBSD doesn't have bash installed by default (and hence, /bin/sh is not bash like it is usually on Linux), and our sh doesn't have that feature... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi John, yes it works when executed with bash aa.sh. Thank you :) On 11/30/05, John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote this message on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:19 +0530: I already have bash installed from ports. It is bash 2.05b. But below you were running sh, and not bash... if you do sh array.sh, it will not reinterpet the #!/bin/bash line, and re-exec it with the program in part because /bin/bash doesn't exist on the system, as bash is installed in /usr/local/bin/bash... Please try with: bash array.sh instead, and see if that works.. On 11/30/05, John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote this message on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39 +0530: Below is the output. # sh array.sh Install the bash port (as root: pkg_add -r bas), and then try again using bash... FreeBSD doesn't have bash installed by default (and hence, /bin/sh is not bash like it is usually on Linux), and our sh doesn't have that feature... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:49 pm, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi John, I already have bash installed from ports. It is bash 2.05b. Then use 'bash foo.sh' :) -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ Power Users Use the Power to Serve = http://www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39:15AM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) You should use: bash array.sh On FreeBSD sh != bash $ ls -l `which sh` -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 763316 Sep 3 08:37 /bin/sh $ ls -l `which bash` -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 471136 Jun 12 01:13 /usr/local/bin/bash Cheers -- Marco Gigante ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
