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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 751

Looping through array in bash

I'm trying to launch multiple python scripts with bash, for the purpose of later processing the data these scripts generate. 

MYPIES=("/path/to/a.py" "path/to/b.py" "path/to/c.py" ... "path/to/xyz.py" )

for i in "${MYPIES[@]}"
  do
    python ${MYPIES[i]} &
  done

However this snippet causes the following error:

syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/path/to/a.py")

Upvotes: 1

Views: 42

Answers (1)

Yonas Kassa
Yonas Kassa

Reputation: 3710

the variable i holds the filenames, it is not index to an entry in MYPIES. 

MYPIES=("/path/to/a.py" "path/to/b.py" "path/to/c.py" ... "path/to/xyz.py" )

for i in "${MYPIES[@]}"
  do
    python "$i" &
  done

Upvotes: 1

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