Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:48:40 +0530 From: Jayesh Jayan <jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Jayesh Jayan <jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays Message-ID: <e8ecf3c00511291418i6cd40595t6ecff255629dbab6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051129220954.GN885@funkthat.com> References: <e8ecf3c00511291309yb9caeb9uebdf92c4ad7af4f8@mail.gmail.com> <20051129212732.GL885@funkthat.com> <e8ecf3c00511291349y107e6489y4fc0e05fcb316ad2@mail.gmail.com> <20051129220954.GN885@funkthat.com>
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Hi John, yes it works when executed with bash aa.sh. Thank you :) On 11/30/05, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> 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 <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... > > -- > 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
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