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I do have a interesting problem that I am trying to tackle but I am yet unable to do so.

Let suppose that I have 2 arrays.

Array One:

1 -2 3 -2 2 -4

Array Two:

-2 -3 4 5 2 -5

I want to be able to actually compare the i-th value of both Array one and Array two:

  • If both are negative then I would input in Array Three 0
  • If they are both positive I will add a 1
  • If they are opposites I need to insert a 2

Output:

2 0 1 2 1 0

How can I do that ?

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What have you tried so far? – Kusalananda 2 days ago
    
What if an element is zero? – Kusalananda 2 days ago
    
Hello, a element can never be 0 since the two arrays are actually stock values so if both are up together then there is a relation down as well so the value can never be 0 am very new to bash – JavaFreak 2 days ago
    
Really, don't use bash for this. Use Python or Perl, not bash. – cat 2 days ago
up vote 6 down vote accepted

If you're familiar with C, C++ or Java, then you'll find this variant of bash's for-loop quite familiar too. bash does arithmetic evaluation with (( ... )) so we'll use that when comparing values:

array1=(  1 -2  3 -2  2 -4 )
array2=( -2 -3  4  5  2 -5 )

array3=( )

for (( i=0; i < ${#array1[@]}; ++i )); do
    if (( array1[i] < 0 && array2[i] < 0 )); then
        array3[$i]=0
    elif (( array1[i] > 0 && array2[i] > 0 )); then
        array3[$i]=1
    else
        array3[$i]=2
    fi
done

echo "${array3[@]}"

This also works well with the ksh93 shell, from which bash got many of its features.

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up vote 3 down vote

A straight way:

arr1=(1 -2 3 -2 2 -4)
arr2=(-2 -3 4 5 2 -5)

i=0

while [[ "$i" -lt "${#arr1[@]}" ]]; do
  a=$(( ${arr1[$i]} * ${arr2[$i]} ))
  if [[ "$a" -lt 0 ]]; then
    echo 2
  else
    if [[ "${arr1[$i]}" -gt 0 ]]; then
      echo 1
    else
      echo 0
    fi
  fi
  : "$((i = i + 1))"
done | paste -sd ' ' -
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Slightly obfuscated in a backhand trick shot kind of way, but +1 for creative use of paste and :. – Kusalananda 2 days ago

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