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Bash Arrays

If you have ever done any programming you are probably already familiar with arrays. But just in case that you are not a developer, unlike variables, arrays can hold several values under one name.

You can initialize an array by assigning values devided by space and enclosed in (). Example:

my_array=("value 1" "value 2" "value 3" "value 4")

To access the elements in the array, you need to reference them by their numeric index.

Note: keep in mind that you need to use curly brackets.

  • Access a single element, this would output: value 2
echo ${my_array[1]}
  • This would return the last element: value 4
echo ${my_array[-1]}
  • This would output the total number of elements in the array, in our case it is 4:
echo ${my_array[@]}
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