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title: "How to Read Array and Print in Bash script"
description: "Here's a simplified script to read all the elements of the array. You can do two things with this script. Those are appending and Counting."
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date: 2021-10-23
modified: 2026-10-10
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categories: ["Shell scripts"]
tags: ["Bash script of Arrays"]
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# How to Read Array and Print in Bash script

Here’s a Bash script that reads the array and prints the values. On top of that, you can print the index if you need.

Related[The Easy Way to get Array Data in Shell-Script](https://srinimf.com/2022/10/10/the-easy-way-to-get-array-data-in-shell-script/)

Let us go details of Vector and Matrix. A single-value array is called Vector, and if it has multiple Values, it’s called Matrix.

Not only numbers, but you can also have strings in arrays. In real-time, you can find this type of array.

## Reading Array

![Reading Array](https://i0.wp.com/srinimf.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/script-1.jpg?resize=726%2C483&ssl=1)

A loop logic you need here to read the elements of the array. So I have used for loop. 

As a first step, I have initialized the **numbers** with numeric values from 1 to 5. In addition, I have initialized total1 and total2 to ‘0’.

First, for loop reads all the elements. Second, the total1 *appends* array elements with ‘0’. 

The let command do computation(It sums up all the numbers and gives a ***count). So it describes the function of the script.***

## Result of Array Script

![Result of Array Script](https://i0.wp.com/srinimf.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/result.jpg?resize=727%2C377&ssl=1)

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