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I want a Unix script which will take multiple column numbers from the user and reverse the contents.

declare -a param="$@"
# enter 0 when exit the insert element
echo "Enter the numbers"
read n
while [ $n -ne 0 ]
do
    x[$i]=`expr $n`
    read n
    let i++
done

#display the all array elements
echo "Array values ${x[@]}"
echo "Array values ${x[*]}"

# To find the array length
length=${#x[*]}
echo $length
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A copy and paste of my answer to an extremely similar question on stack overflow, which was posted alongside an extremely similar answer to Gnouc's above...

_arr+=( '"${_arrev} is an actual "${array[@]}"' )
_arr+=( '"${_arrev} is created as a result"' )
_arr+=( '"of reversing the key order in"' )
_arr+=( '"this "${_arr}. It handles zsh and"' )
_arr+=( '"bash arrays intelligently by tracking"' )
_arr+=( '"shell "$ENV." quotes=fine ( i hope ) "' )

. <<REVERSE /dev/stdin                    ⏎
    _arrev=( $(: $((l=${#_arr[@]}${ZSH_VERSION++1})) ; printf '"${_arr[$(('$l'-%d))]}" ' `seq 1 $l`) )
REVERSE

echo ; printf %s\\n ${_arrev}

"shell "$ENV." quotes=fine ( i hope ) "
"bash arrays intelligently by tracking"
"this "${_arr}. It handles zsh and"
"of reversing the key order in"
"${_arrev} is created as a result"
"${_arrev} is an actual "${array[@]}"

This should handle any possible array, I think.

If you're interested in what's going on up there, I suggest you have a look here first. Then maybe here, definitely here, and, if you've got the time, here and here.

In all of those answers I discuss different aspects of the here-document (and in many others) which you can use to your advantage. For instance I discuss twice-evaluating variables, which is done above, and in one declare a function that globally declares another function named "_$1" in just 5 or 6 lines - most of which were _$1() { func body ; }. It's pretty handy if you use it correctly.

Regarding the auto-switch between bash/zsh, well that's something else, but very simple as well. See here.

So basically if you can create a bash/zsh, array you should be able to reverse it using only the 3 . <<...REVERSE lines. It does not need to loop over the array in the way a for loop does.

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If I understand right, you want to reverse contents of an array. You can do it with for loop:

for ((idx=${#x[@]}-1; idx >= 0; idx--))
do
  printf '%s ' "${x[idx]}"
done
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