Nice to see more people getting nerdsniped by the sh code. ;-)
Yes, associative arrays work well. I think it should even be possible to use bash associative arrays. But at that point you're no longer doing classic sh - awk is basically halfway to Perl. (And pretty awesome.)
Yes, associative arrays work well. I think it should even be possible to use bash associative arrays. But at that point you're no longer doing classic sh - awk is basically halfway to Perl. (And pretty awesome.)