bash - Unable to retrieve all array elements -

i have script have defined 2 arrays. depending on array name passed (as parameter), want process same in function below. earlier, wasn't getting element in variable 'array' until used ${!}

now problem when printing array content (or number of elements in array), getting first element.

any suggestions?

script:

#!/bin/bash  app=$1  process_data() {     array="${!1}"     echo "no of array elements: ${#array[@]}"     echo "array content: ${array[@]}" }   oradata=( "oraserver/content:abcdaily/oraserver/" "oraserver/w3s-ix86:abcdaily/oraserver/" )  sqldata=( "sqlserver/content:abcdaily/sqlserver/" "sqlserver/w3s-ix86:abcdaily/sqlserver/" )  process_data ${app[@]} 

command:

-bash-2.05b$ ./testarray.sh oradata 

output:

no of array elements: 1 array content: oraserver/content:abcdaily/oraserver/ 

here's version without eval (so handles shell metacharacters in array values properly):

#!/bin/bash  app=$1  process_data() {     arrayvar="$1[@]"   # textually appends "[@]" $1     array=("${!arrayvar}")   # use indirect expansion contents of array, store new array     echo "no of array elements: ${#array[@]}"     echo "array content: ${array[@]}" }   oradata=( "oraserver/content:abcdaily/oraserver/" "oraserver/w3s-ix86:abcdaily/oraserver/" )  sqldata=( "sqlserver/content:abcdaily/sqlserver/" "sqlserver/w3s-ix86:abcdaily/sqlserver/" )  process_data $app   # note app not array, [@] bit irrelevant 

example:

$ ./testarray.sh oradata no of array elements: 2 array content: oraserver/content:abcdaily/oraserver/ oraserver/w3s-ix86:abcdaily/oraserver/