HashMap in shell script with File path

Question

I am trying to declare a hash map in shell script containing a file path as key and some variable as value. Something like this

fileVarMap=( ["Dir1/file1.txt"]="myVar1"  ["Dir2/file2.txt"]="myVar2" )

I am getting an Error called...syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator

How can this be achieved?

Thanks in Advance.

Got One way to solve this http://stackoverflow.com/a/4444841/1350792 — Aryan, May 23 '13 at 07:53

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '13 at 09:03

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If you are using Bash, man page says :

Associative arrays are created using declare -A name.

So, you should try this :

declare -A fileVarMap
fileVarMap=( ["Dir1/file1.txt"]="myVar1"  ["Dir2/file2.txt"]="myVar2" )
echo ${fileVarMap["Dir1/file1.txt"]}

answered May 23 '13 at 09:03

Eric Citaire

Would you please provide a way to iterate this as key value :) – Aryan May 23 '13 at 10:46
this was already answered here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3112687/how-to-iterate-over-associative-array-in-bash – Eric Citaire May 23 '13 at 12:22

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