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we know perl gives us the facility to use hashes

%ages = ('Martin' => 28, 'Sharon' => 35, 'Rikke' => 29);

what if I want to do the same thing in shell script ??

thanks

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At least in the bash and korn shells there are associative arrays, essentially hashes.

See this for bash and this for korn.

Edited by masijade because: added korn shell link
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It depends upon what you want to do. In bash scripts you can assign the output of any other executable to a variable using the back-quote character, as in:

varname=`md5sum filename`
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It depends upon what you want to do.

Sorry rubberman, but did you maybe reply in the wrong thread?

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