Re: Reverse the order of an array?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Steve Talley wrote:

> How can I easily reverse the order of an array in zsh?

Depends what you mean by "easily."

> I was hoping that something like
>
>     osvers=($osvers[{$#osvers..1}])
>
> would work, but no luck.

Array "slices" in zsh only have start and end points, and are always in
ascending order by numeric position in the array.  So you can't do this
purely with parameter expansion in the general case.

This works:

for ((i=$#osvers; i>0; --i)) { osvers[i*2]=($osvers[1]); shift osvers }