Copy variable to array

[Tony Arnold]

On 01/06/14 17:47, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
I have a variable that contains a path. Now I want to copy every single directory to an array like this:
x=./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno
# Do something here to copy x to the array y…
echo ${y[3]} # Should print ”def”.

Here's the result of my best (?) try:
$ x="./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno"; IFS='/'; y=$x; echo ${y[0]}; echo ${#y[@]}; IFS=$'\n'
. abc def ghi jkl mno
1
$
Try this instead:

x="./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno"; IFS='/'; y=($x); echo ${y[*]}; echo ${#y[@]}; IFS=$'\n'

For me, this produces:

. abc def ghi jkl mno
6

Regards,
Tony.

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