configure.conf

fruit-list="apple, pear, banana, watermelon"

Script

source /configure.conf

Then it shows error: /configure.conf: line 2: fruit-list=apple, pear, banana, watermelon: command not found

Can someone help me figure out why that happens?

I want the the fruit-list can be an list data type in shell script, which is same with

fruit-list="apple" "pear" "banana" "watermelon"

Please help me fix this issue.

CodePudding user response：

A (variable) name, at least with bash, may not contain a dash (-):

name: A word consisting only of alphanumeric characters and underscores, and beginning with an alphabetic character or an underscore. Also referred to as an identifier. BASH(1)

You could use an underscore (_) instead:

fruit_list="apple, pear, banana, watermelon"

And if you want fruit_list to be array it would be:

fruit_list=(apple pear banana watermelon)