Lesson 5 of 12 · Structuring your scripts
Indexed and associative arrays: lists, counters, grouping and safe commands
Objective
Use bash's two kinds of arrays for what they do best: keep a list of items intact (file names, servers, arguments) and associate a value with a key (count per role, total per city, look up a server's configuration).
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