How Do You Create an Array in Unix?
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How do you declare an array in Unix?

We can declare an array in a shell script in different ways.

  1. Indirect Declaration. In Indirect declaration, We assigned a value in a particular index of Array Variable. No need to first declare. …
  2. Explicit Declaration. In Explicit Declaration, First We declare array then assigned the values. …
  3. Compound Assignment.

How do you create an array in Linux?

Create an array

  1. Create indexed or associative arrays by using declare. We can explicitly create an array by using the declare command: $ declare -a my_array. …
  2. Create indexed arrays on the fly. …
  3. Print the values of an array. …
  4. Print the keys of an array. …
  5. Getting the size of an array. …
  6. Deleting an element from the array.
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