[mdlug] Need help with bash array usage

[Jeff Hanson]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> But then maybe you don't even need arrays:
>
> $ find . -type f -iname "*.txt" -print0 |
> xargs -0 grep -l "MATCH" |
> awk '{print NR ": " $0 }'

I though about trying awk but I'd have to learn the language.  I
learned a little bit about it ten years ago when trying to fix a CAD
utility that used it.  I see it has it's own array variables which may
be useful.  But testing your suggestion showed that bash still loads
the output into an array as a list with element values delimited by
spaces.  Might be useful if nothing else works but it would require
restructuring the script I'm working on.