Re: Severe Bash Bug with Arrays

[Linda Walsh]

Ted Okuzumi wrote:

> I am writing this e-mai to report to report a bug in bash
>
> Description:
>         Cannot redirect into an array from multiline variable
>
> Does not work:
> echo "$mydata" | while read line; do myarray+=( "$line" ); done

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Have you tried this?


Ishtar:> a='this
 is
  a
   test'
Ishtar:> echo "$a"
this
 is
  a
   test
Ishtar:> readarray b < <(echo "$a")
Ishtar:> echo ${#b[*]}
4
Ishtar:> echo ${b[*]}
this is a test
Ishtar:> echo "${b[*]}"
this
  is
   a
    test

Ishtar:> echo -n "${b[*]}"
this
  is
   a
    test
Ishtar:> readarray -t b < <(echo "$a")
Ishtar:> echo "${b[*]}"
this  is   a    test
Ishtar:> echo ${b[*]}
this is a test
Ishtar:>

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Seeems like you can have it anyway you want it...?

Does the above work for you?