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Re: Change on stdout

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From: Omari Norman <omari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Change on stdout
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:40:13 -0400
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:52:07PM +0200, tartifola@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I need to operate a transformation on the standard output
> of a command. The output is a list of numbers
> 
> 1 5 8 ...
> 
> and I like to have it transformed in
> 
> a1=1,a2=5,a3=8,...

This is inelegant (like my knowledge of the shell) but should work.

$ nums=$(your_command)
$ numArray=( ${=nums} )
$ for (( n = 1; n <= ${#numArray}; n++))
echo -n "a${n}=${numArray[$n]},"
done
echo

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