Re: passing array to command line argument.

[Chet Ramey]

> 
> Hello i would like to pass an array to my script command line argument, but
> only the first element of the array is displayed.  Here is my process :
> 
> script1:
> my_array=(el1 el2 el3)
> script2 -f $my_array

You're only passing the first element of the array to script2.  An
unsubscripted word expansion expands to the first element of an array.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/