days=({Mon,Tues,Wednes,Thurs,Fri,Satur,Sun}day) echo ${days[@]} typeset -i count count=0 echo ${days[${count}]} echo ${days[$((count++))]} echo ${days[$((count++))]} count=0 echo ${days[count]} echo ${days[count++]} echo ${days[count++]} count=0 echo ${days[$((count++))]/foo/bar} echo ${days[$((count++))]/foo/bar} echo ${days[$((count++))]/foo/bar} count=0 echo ${days[count++]/foo/bar} echo ${days[count++]/foo/bar} echo ${days[count++]/foo/bar} count=0 echo "${days[${count}],,}, ${days[$((count++))],,}, ${days[$((count++))],,}" echo "${days[${count}],,}, ${days[$((count++))],,}, ${days[$((count++))],,}" count=0 echo "${days[${count}],,}, ${days[$((count++))],,}, ${days[$((count++))],,}" echo "${days[${count}]/foo/bar}, ${days[$((count++))]/foo/bar}, ${days[$((count++))]/foo/bar}" count=0 echo ${days[$((count++))]:2} echo ${days[$((count++))]:2} echo ${days[$((count++))]:2} count=0 echo ${days[count++]:2} echo ${days[count++]:2} echo ${days[count++]:2} count=0 echo ${days[$((count++))]#?} echo ${days[$((count++))]#?} echo ${days[$((count++))]#?} count=0 echo ${days[count++]#?} echo ${days[count++]#?} echo ${days[count++]#?}