May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Associative arrays have been introduced to Bash from Version 4.0. When the indices are a string (site names, user names, nonsequential numbers, and so on), an associative array is easier to work with than a numerically indexed array.