Assign array to variable

Question

The issue about assigning arrays to variables in bash script seems rather complicated:

a=(\"a\" \"b\" \"c\")
b=$a

echo ${a[0]} 
echo ${a[1]}

echo ${b[0]} 
echo         


        

Answer 1

If you want to copy a variable that holds an array to another name, you do it like this:

a=('a' 'b' 'c')
b=( "${a[@]}" )