Reading from file to array in bash

Question

There is a file containing strings. How to read these lines from a file into an array in bash?

Streletz 7.526 8 gold signs 18 silver marks 34 bronze marks · Answer 1 · 2016-09-25T09:27:42

So much easier:

readarray ARRAY < filename

Streletz

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Artem

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why minus The answer is absolutely correct (for bash 4). I would give the -t option to remove the line feed. - jfs

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gkuznets gkuznets 1,204 6 silver marks 10 bronze marks · Answer 2 · 2012-05-21T09:13:50

read:

 index=0 while read line; do array[$index]="$line" index=$(($index+1)) done < filename

check:

 for ((a=0; a < ${#array[*]}; a++)) do echo "$a: ${array[$a]}" done

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