Re: Create variable named variable$i in for loop

greyfell_at_zerobyte.org
Date: 09/25/03 

Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:06:29 -0500

        Forgive me, but shellscripts are rather new to me. I can
create and manipulate arrays in C++ and Java, but I wouldn't know
where to begin to do it with a shellscript. Is it even remotely
similar?

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:10:12 GMT, Barry Margolin
<barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:

>In article <j464nvo9suecu03qs2o76b2ps8t9he4h0b@4ax.com>,
> <greyfell@zerobyte.org> wrote:
>> I'm obviously missing something. I have written a simple
>>shellscript that performs a number of tests in a for loop. In each
>>instance, I would like to log a count of how many successes the test
>>encountered to then echo at the end. I'm doing it this way:
>
>This is what arrays are for.
>
>But if you really want to do what you tried to write, use "eval":
>
>eval sucess$i=$success