Associative arrays in shell scripts

Another option, if portability is not your main concern, is to use associative arrays that are built in to the shell. This should work in bash 4.0 (available now on most major distros, though not on OS X unless you install it yourself), ksh, and zsh: declare -A newmap newmap[name]=”Irfan Zulfiqar” newmap[designation]=SSE newmap[company]=”My Own Company” … Read more

How to concatenate properties from multiple JavaScript objects

ECMAscript 6 introduced Object.assign() to achieve this natively in Javascript. The Object.assign() method is used to copy the values of all enumerable own properties from one or more source objects to a target object. It will return the target object. MDN documentation on Object.assign() var o1 = { a: 1 }; var o2 = { … Read more