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I want to use for for a set of files.

for file in fileA fileB fileC; do
    COMMAND $file $variable
done

For every $file I want to use specific $variable.
(for example: fileA variableA; fileB variableB)

How can do such association?

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  • what version of bash? Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 23:25
  • GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 23:27
  • if [$ID="fileA"] results in command not found here... Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 23:38

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Since you are on v4 of bash, associative arrays are an option

declare -A arr
arr=([fileA]=variableA [fileB]=variableB [fileC]=variableC)
for file in "${!arr[@]}"
 do
    command "$file" "${arr[$(basename $file)]}"
done

Note that order of processing may be different from the order within the array definition

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declare -A filevars
filevars[fileA]=foo
filevars[fileB]=bar
filevars[fileC]=baz
for file in fileA fileB fileC; do
  echo cmd "$file" "${filevars[$file]}"
done
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  • Is it possible to associate multiple variables? varA1 varA2 for fileA, etc? Commented Jun 22, 2013 at 0:16
  • @Poe Not directly, bash arrays are one-dimensional. But you can create arrays: arrayindex=0; filevarno[fileA]=$arrayindex; eval filevars_$arrayindex=(varA1 varA2); ((arrayindex++)); ... Commented Jun 22, 2013 at 1:26

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