2D Array Creation Question

[Matthew Kruer]

Is there a better way to create this array?

I know I can do it like this
# Array [Name, Sufix, Fullname]
name=('workflow','application','process','adaptor','event','io')
sufix=('war','jar','jar','jar','jar','jar')
fullname('','','','','','','')

sudo update of array with additional information
for (a=0;a<$name[@];a++)
fullname[a] = `ls -t $name[a]*$sufix[a] | head -1`
done

Ideally I would like it to be like this as it is easier to read.
# Array [name, sufix, fullname]
'workflow', 'war', ''
'application', 'jar', ''
'process', 'jar', ''
'adaptor', 'jar', ''
'event', 'jar', ''
'io', 'jar', ''

Thanks

[Dave Gibson]

names=(
workflow war ''
application jar ''
process jar ''
adaptor jar ''
event jar ''
io jar ''
)

# number of elements considered to form a record
recsize=3

# offsets (within a record) to name, extension and fullname
nameoff=0
extoff=1
fulloff=2

for (( n = nameoff, e = extoff, f = fulloff ; n < ${#names[@]} ;
n += recsize, e += recsize, f += recsize )) ; do
read names[$f] <<< \
"$( ls -t -- "${names[$n]}"*"${names[$e]}" 2> /dev/null )"
done

[Ed Morton]

Here's an alternative approach to your problem:

ls -rt | gawk '
BEGIN {
name2sfx["workflow"] = "war"
name2sfx["application"] = "jar"
name2sfx["process"] = "jar"
name2sfx["adaptor"] = "jar"
name2sfx["event"] = "jar"
name2sfx["io"] = "jar"
}

{
for (name in name2sfx) {
sfx = name2sfx[name]
if ( ($0 ~ "^" name ".*" sfx "$") && (!done[name,sfx]++) ) {
print name, sfx, $0
}
}
}
'

Might make it a bit easier to do whatever it is you eventually want to do
with the file names.

Regards,

Ed.

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[Matthew Kruer]

Thanks to the replies. I think I came up with a more elegant solution which was to

NAME=( 'com.application-.*.jar'
'com.process.runtime_.*.jar'
'com.adaptor_.*.jar'
'com.event_.*.jar'
'com.io_.*.jar'
'com.message_.*.jar'
'com.process_.*.jar'
'com.queue_.*.jar'
'com.resource_.*.jar'
'com.search_.*.jar'
'com.service_.*.jar')
I build the array with build in regular expressions. This works better as it’s a single array, and I can use the array regular expressions logic both for the search and the replacement string.

for i in "${!NAME[@]}"
do
FULLNAME[$i]=`ls -t1 $SOURCE | grep ${NAME[$i]} | head -n1`
DATETIME[$i]=`ls -tla1 $SOURCE | grep ${NAME[$i]} | head -n1 | awk '{print $6, $7}'`
done

(yeah I know i could have used awk, but this works and is easier for me to understand being an awk novice. )

for i in "${!FULLNAME[@]}"
do
find $PROJECTDIR -name "file1.xml" -o -name "file2.xml" | xargs sed -i "s|${NAME[$i]}|${FULLNAME[$i]}|g"
done

This seems to work perfectly.

Thanks again.