I have an array which contains
commName[0]="ls"
commName[1]="date"
commName[2]="crontab"
commName[3]="uname"
commName[4]="hostname"
Now the array doesn't always contain these. Sometimes it can have more indices sometimes less. And the values are not always ls,date,...
They can be different. Bottom line, I don't know the size nor the values of the array when I'm coding.
Every array value ls,date,...
has its own unique address. So for example, ls
would have /home/test/
and date would have /home/test/test2/
etc... These addresses need to be stored into a variable which will be used later on in the code. So I should have following variables according to the given array
$lsAddress
$dateAddress
$crontabAddress
$unameAddress
$hostnameAddress
Therefore, I need a way to make these variables (have in mind that I don't know ls,date,uname,....
)
My approach was this
for ((j=0 ; j<${#commName[@]} ; j++))
do
set commName[$j]Nick="hi"
echo $(${commName[$j]}Nick)
done
What I expected this to do was to create new variables for every index of the array and set them equal to hi
(just for test purposes) and then access those new variables.
Also, The new created variables Must be accessible anywhere. So, I can't have a temporary variable that keeps getting replaced.
However, this method isn't working... Is there any other way I can do this?