Merging two arrays in Bash

Question

I have the following situation, two arrays, let\'s call them A( 0 1 ) and B ( 1 2 ), i need to combine them in a new array C ( 0:1 0:2 1:1 1:2 ), the latest bit i\'ve come u

Answer 1

Since Bash supports sparse arrays, it's better to iterate over the array than to use an index based on the size.

a=(0 1); b=(2 3)
i=0
for z in ${a[@]}
do
    for y in ${b[@]}
    do
        c[i++]="$z:$y"
    done
done
declare -p c   # dump the array

Outputs:

declare -a c='([0]="0:2" [1]="0:3" [2]="1:2" [3]="1:3")'