Bash For Loop Array: Iterate Through Array Values

 

To declare an array in bash

Declare and an array called array and assign three values:

array=( one two three )

More examples:

files=( "/etc/passwd" "/etc/group" "/etc/hosts" )
limits=( 10, 20, 26, 39, 48)

To print an array use:

printf "%s\n" "${array[@]}"
printf "%s\n" "${files[@]}"
printf "%s\n" "${limits[@]}"

To Iterate Through Array Values

Use for loop syntax as follows:

for i in "${arrayName[@]}"
do
   : 
   # do whatever on $i
done

$i will hold each item in an array. Here is a sample working script:

#!/bin/bash
# declare an array called array and define 3 vales
array=( one two three )
for i in "${array[@]}"
do
	echo $i
done