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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>
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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."
>



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