Bash (Scripting) - Count values in a list

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Let's say you have an list of fruit. # can be used to return the number of elements in a list.

#!/bin/bash
fruits=(banana apple orange grapes)
echo "The \"fruits\" array contains ${#fruits[@]} elements"

 

Which should return the following.

4

 

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