bash-like arrays with busybox / ash

[walter harms]

Guenter schrieb:
> Hi all,
> I just suprisingly found that latest busybox 1.13.3 seems not yet
> support arrays like bash does, f.e. something like:
> 
> #!/bin/ash
> url='http://....'
> files=(`wget -q -O - $url`)
> for ((i=0; i<${#files[*]}; i++)); do
>   echo "$i - ${files[$i]}"
> done
> 
> returns:
> ./getlist: line 3: syntax error: "(" unexpected
> 
> are there any plans to implement arrays soon?

no, except you are doing it.

For your priblem it will be more easy to rewrite it, like (untested!):


for FILE in $( wget -q -O - $url )
do
	echo $FILE
done

re,
 wh