On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:36 +0530, Puneet Lakhina wrote: [...] > However > $> TESTARR=(`echo \"abc def\" ghi`) > $> echo ${TESTARR[0]} > $> echo ${TESTARR[1]} > This incorrectly prints: > "abc > def" [...]
What you want is probably eval TESTARR=(`echo \"abc def\" ghi`) I would also suggest moving to a better scripting language like Python or Perl. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/