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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
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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 <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> 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...

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