Typeset is not working in Linux korn shell scripting

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,

Kindly help on the below issue ASAP. Its very urgent.

I have script in which we have below two lines for code and it is not working. Please help.

files_to_process="
abc_*.log
def_*.log
ghi_*.log
"

typeset -A dir_list ${files_to_process}

the script is failing in Linux korn shell with below error.

-ksh: typeset: abc_*.log: invalid variable name

Thanks in Advance.

2

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3

It's not clear what you want to achieve with your failing command. Is it an associative array with the file names as indexes? As element values?

4

In addition to what RudiC has already said, if you are trying to create an associative array with filenames as the indexes in your arrray, you need to also specify that values that are to be assigned to those elements in the array. For example:

typeset -A dir_list=([abc_123.log]=6 [abc_234.log]=29 [def_357.log]="a string" ["ghi_12()x.log"]="something else")

If you just wanted an indexed array where the filenames are the values of elements with indexes 0 through 3 (assuming the same four file matching your patterns exist in the directory in which you run your script, then just try:

dir_list=(abc_*.log def_*.log ghi_*.log)