arrays in bash

In scripting with Bash, you might sometimes feel the limitation of not having native support for multidimensional arrays like those you would find in languages like Python or Java. However, with a bit of creativity, you can effectively emulate multidimensional arrays to handle complex data structures. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how to emulate multidimensional arrays in Bash and discuss how to install any required tools using different package managers such as apt (for Debian-based systems), dnf (for Fedora and RHEL-based systems), and zypper (for openSUSE). A multidimensional array is, at its simplest, an array of arrays.