An associative array is an array which uses strings as indices instead of integers. To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest ...

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One of the most convenient ways to manipulate information in scripts is to store it in an array. Arrays facilitate looping through lists of related values, keeping track of an ever changing number of ...

In the good old days when UNIX was young, no one ever would have thought of putting a space in a filename. It simply wasn't done—just as you'd never do that on a DOS or Windows system. Filenames were ...