Read a Foldername into a variable

[vij]

Hello !

I am trying to write a script which can read the names of all folders within a given folder into separate variables. In effect, if a folder contains a folder "Folder1", "Folder2", "Folder3", the script would read those names into variables such as:

Variable1 = "Folder1"
Variable2 = "Folder2"
Variable3 = "Folder3"

I have tried fiddling with the find . command, but without any success. Any ideas ?

[Kloschüssel]

assuming you are doing bashy things, try this:

for i in ./*; do echo $i; done;

anyway variables should be assigned without whitespaces as prefix or postfix of the equality. that means, your code should be written as:

Variable1="Folder1"
Variable2="Folder2"
Variable3="Folder3"

[lemons]

Yes, and to follow on, you can use an IF statement to check if they are directories to distinguish them from regular files, i.e.:

for file in *; do
   if [ -d $file ]; then
      echo $file
   fi
done

I'm not sure how to do arrays, which is probably a good way to do this; sorry.

[Kloschüssel]

well, an array is simple as that:

array=()
i=0
for file in *; do
   if [ -d $file ]; then
      array[$i]=$file;
      i=`expr $i + 1`
   fi
done
echo ${array[*]}

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