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Ash Vs Bash
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What have you found bad about bash arrays? I have some simple usage of those (in bash) and they work fine.
As far as I've seen, they don't provide any advantage over a string with spaces, which doesn't work well either when you've got values with spaces:
You should put some quotes where you use the array:
Aaaaah! Thank you kind stranger. It never would have occurred to me to quote an array!
If you run your scripts through https://shellcheck.net it'll pick up things like this. Also available as a Linux package for offline use.
I too would like to know. Thank you.