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Putting string with newline separated words into array
I currently have a a bash variable that holds a string similar to this one,
where each different phrase is separated by a newline:
var="1st word
2nd word
4th word"
Note there is an empty ...
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More efficient zsh string parsing / array handling
Is there any more efficient way to do the following in zsh?
I imagine that there might be ways to get rid of the intermediate array parameters a and/or b.
The script gets some output from a command. ...
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String Manipulation Shell Script [duplicate]
I am working on a UPS Monitoring project using NUT Server. My objective is to make a shell script which sends one command and in response receives the status and other parameters from the UPS.
for ...
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Go from a String to an Array of "words" in Bash
I need to go from a string to an array where each entry is each word on that string. For example, starting with:
VotePedro="Vote for Pedro"
I need the array:
Vote
For
Pedro
Which I should then be ...
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How can I prepend and append to each member of an array?
I have an array:
CATEGORIES=(one two three four)
I can prepend to each array member using parameter expansion:
echo ${CATEGORIES[@]/#/foo }
I can append to each array member the same way:
echo ${...
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Splitting the working directory in a bash script
If I do:
IFS="/" read -ra PARTS
And type in a path manually, it creates the array "PARTS" as hoped, however:
IFS="/" read -ra PARTS <<< $(pwd)
creates an array with a single element, with ...
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Bash : Native way to get rid of quotation around each array member
I read an array from another script. This array needs to put " " around all array members since some members are empty.
in_file=./data
vector=($(./readdata.sh 0 $in_file))
for index in ${!vector[@]}
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Read file remove spaces and store in array
I have a file with the following content:
list:
blue,none
red,none
orange,plot
baseball , none
university,none
school,none
desk,plot
monitor,none
earphone,none
I need to read this file, ...
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Generate array of strings combined with number
I would like to generate a local array in a shell/bash script that consists of the following elements: JF-1998, JF-1999, JF-2000,... , JF-2011. That is, a string JF- combined with the years from 1998 ...
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Zsh script how to concatanate array elements with string
I have written a zsh script to automize an analysis in high energy physics and now I would like to use an element of the one of the defined array some string and another element of some another array ...
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