store result of command into an array

[lrhatice]

Hey guys,

New on this forum. Would really appreciate some help on this issue I'm having. I'm trying to store
the result of this command into an array so that I can compare this array with another array so
I can get the difference between the two. My first problem is storing this output into an array? Any suggestions would be great guys.

launchctl list | egrep -v "com.apple|anonymous.launchd|anonymous|master|cron|ntpd|bombich|cupsd" | awk '{print $3}'

org.test.squid
org.test.disk
org.test.maint

 

[PHV]

And how would you compare 2 arrays ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[lrhatice]

[[ "${array1[@]}" = "${array2[@]}" ]] && echo same || echo different

 

[PHV]

I'd try this:
declare -a array2=$(launchctl list | egrep -v "com.apple|anonymous|master|cron|ntpd|bombich|cupsd" | awk '{print $3}')

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

Perhaps just like this it would work:

array2=$(launchctl list | egrep -v "com.apple|anonymous|master|cron|ntpd|bombich|cupsd" | awk '{print $3}')

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[LKBrwnDBA]

PS: In order for the compare statement you posted to work, you would need both arrays to be SORTED.
Otherwise they will be different even if the contain the same elements:

==> a1=$(ls -1 *.log)
==> echo $a1
EXTERNAL_EXAMPLE_13762668.log EXTERNAL_EXAMPLE_25100426.log load_example.log student.log
==> a2=$(ls -1r *.log)
==> echo $a2
student.log load_example.log EXTERNAL_EXAMPLE_25100426.log EXTERNAL_EXAMPLE_13762668.log
==> [[ "${a1[@]}" = "${a2[@]}" ]] && echo "Equal" || echo "Different"
Different

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