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PODeleting specific values from an array in ksh
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copied!<p>I have a customized .profile that I use in ksh and below is a function that I created to skip back and forth from directories with overly complicated or long names.</p> <p>As you can see, the pathnames are stored in an array (<code>BOOKMARKS[]</code>) to keep track of them and reference them at a later time. I want to be able to delete certain values from the array, using a case statement (or OPTARG if necessary) so that I can just type <code>bmk -d #</code> to remove the path at the associated index.</p> <p>I have fiddled around with <code>array +A and -A</code>, but it just wound up screwing up my array (what is left in the commented out code may not be pretty...I didn't proofread it). </p> <p>Any suggestions/tips on how to create that functionality? Thanks!</p> <pre><code># To bookmark the current directory you are in for easy navigation back and forth from multiple non-aliased directories # Use like 'bmk' (sets the current directory to a bookmark number) to go back to this directory, i.e. type 'bmk 3' (for the 3rd) # To find out what directories are linked to which numbers, type 'bmk -l' (lowercase L) # For every new directory bookmarked, the number will increase so the first time you run 'bmk' it will be 1 then 2,3,4...etc. for every consecutive run therea fter # TODO: finish -d (delete bookmark entry) function make_bookmark() { if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then BOOKMARKS[${COUNTER}]=${PWD} (( COUNTER=COUNTER+1 )) else case $1 in -l) NUM_OF_ELEMENTS=${#BOOKMARKS[*]} while [[ ${COUNTER} -lt ${NUM_OF_ELEMENTS} ]] do (( ACTUAL_NUM=i+1 )) echo ${ACTUAL_NUM}":"${BOOKMARKS[${i}]} (( COUNTER=COUNTER+1 )) done break ;; #-d) ACTUAL_NUM=$2 #(( REMOVE=${ACTUAL_NUM}-1 )) #echo "Removing path ${BOOKMARKS[${REMOVE}]} from 'bmk'..." #NUM_OF_ELEMENTS=${#BOOKMARKS[*]} #while [[ ${NUM_OF_ELEMENTS} -gt 0 ]] #do #if [[ ${NUM_OF_ELEMENTS} -ne ${ACTUAL_NUM} ]]; then # TEMP_ARR=$(echo "${BOOKMARKS[*]}") # (( NUM_OF_ELEMENTS=${NUM_OF_ELEMENTS}-1 )) #fi #echo $TEMP_ARR #done #break #for VALUE in ${TEMP_ARR} #do # set +A BOOKMARK ${TEMP_ARR} #done #echo ${BOOKMARK[*]} #break ;; *) (( INDEX=$1-1 )) cd ${BOOKMARKS[${INDEX}]} break ;; esac fi } </code></pre>

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