RosettaCodeData/Task/Binary-search/UnixPipes/binary-search.up

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splitter() {
a=$1; s=$2; l=$3; r=$4;
mid=$(expr ${#a[*]} / 2);
echo $s ${a[*]:0:$mid} > $l
echo $(($mid + $s)) ${a[*]:$mid} > $r
}
bsearch() {
(to=$1; read s arr; a=($arr);
test ${#a[*]} -gt 1 && (splitter $a $s >(bsearch $to) >(bsearch $to)) || (test "$a" -eq "$to" && echo $a at $s)
)
}
binsearch() {
(read arr; echo "0 $arr" | bsearch $1)
}
echo "1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9" | binsearch 6