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Arrays

The Korn shell and bash support one-dimensional arrays. These needn't be defined beforehand. Elements can be assigned individually (for example name[3]=diana) or en masse.

colors[1]=red 
colors[2]=green 
colors[3]=blue

echo The array colors has ${#colors[*]} elements.
echo They are ${colors[*]}