Pro Bash: Learn to Script and Program the GNU/Linux Shell

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13. Data Processing

Jayant Varma¹  

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Berwick, VIC, Australia

 

Data manipulation includes a wide range of actions, far more than can be adequately covered in a single chapter. However, most actions are just the application of techniques already covered in earlier chapters. Arrays are a basic data structure, and although the syntax was covered in Chapter 5 and they were used in the fifteen puzzle code in Chapter 11, we haven’t yet explored their uses. Parameter expansion has been used in several chapters, but its application to parsing data structures has not been discussed.

This chapter will cover ...