Bash Programming

[Devin Whalen]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 17:00, William Park wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:18:56PM -0400, Devin Whalen wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I am new to bash programming so I don't know what is wrong with this
> > piece of code.  I am trying to create an array and loop through it:
> > 
> > export_tables=( "table1" "table2" "table3" "table4" )
> > #export_tables[0]="hello"
> > 
> >         for table in ${export_tables[@]};
> >                 do
> >                   echo "$table"
> >                 done
> > 
> > However, when I run this I get the error:
> > import.sh: 16: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
> > Which is on the line with:
> > export_tables=( "cp_visa" "cp_mc" "cp_diners" "cp_amex" )
> > 
> > If I run this on my Mandrake Linux box it runs find however when I run
> > it on my freeBSD server I get the error.
> > When I run bash --version on the freeBSD box I get:
> > GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd5.2)
> > Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > 
> > Does this version not support arrays?  Is there some setting I have to
> > edit?
> 
> Bash-2.05b supports array, as evidenced by Linux box.  Your scripts runs
> okey here on 2.05b and 3.0.

Ok...I ran it with ./file.sh and it worked fine!!  What is the
difference between ./ and sh?  I don't want to make the same mistake
again.

When things like this happen I begin to realize how little I know about
computers :).

Thanks for the help.




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