Question

In perl one would simply do the following to store and iterate over a list of names

my @fruit = (apple, orange, kiwi); foreach (@fruit) {         print $_; } 

What would the equivalent be in bash?

Answer 1

bash (unlike POSIX sh) supports arrays:

fruits=(apple orange kiwi 'dried mango') for fruit in '${fruits[@]}'; do   echo '${fruit}' done 

This has the advantage that array elements may contain spaces or other members of $IFS; as long as they were correctly inserted as separate elements, they are read out the same way.