maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (08/08/90)
In article <637@travis.csd.harris.com>, brad@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton) writes: )... ) 2) set a shell variable to a word-list (or an array) )... ) sh ksh csh ) ------------------- ---------------------- -------------------------- )... )2) N/A set -A name el1 el2 ... set name=( el1 el2 ... ) To emulate arrays in sh the following constructs can be used: # to set `array[index]' eval array$index=\$value # to retrieve it eval value=\$array$index -- "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." (Doug Gwyn)