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Community Bash Style Guide: writing useful and modern bash scripts, seriously.
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Arrays start index with 0, awk with 1 #14

Closed kallies closed 6 years ago

kallies commented 7 years ago

Fix index count issue.

kallies commented 7 years ago

An independent change would be do add a echo in front:

- ${listofthings} | awk '{ print $3 }' # get the third item
+ echo ${listofthings} | awk '{ print $3 }' # get the third item
- ${listofthings[2]}             # get the third item (start counting from 0)
+ echo ${listofthings[2]}             # get the third item (start counting from 0