Use of $@

[Christof Warlich]

Hi,

just to improve my bash skills: The following functions prints the array
index of a value if found:

index() { local e="$1"; shift; local a=("$@"); for i in "${!a[@]}"; do
[[ ${a[$i]} != $e ]] || { echo $i; break; }; done; }

Thus, with e.g.: myarray=("a" "bc" "my value" "z")

I get:

$ index "my value" "${myarray[@]}"
2

as expected. The only thing that bothers me is that I couldn't get away
without the intermediate assignment of $@ to a new array (a): Is there
really no way to avoid that, i.e. directly using $@ in the for-loop?

Cheers,

Chris