[arrays] Creating an array from a text file in Bash

Use mapfile or read -a

Always check your code using shellcheck. It will often give you the correct answer. In this case SC2207 covers reading a file that either has space separated or newline separated values into an array.

Don't do this

array=( $(mycommand) )

Files with values separated by newlines

mapfile -t array < <(mycommand)

Files with values separated by spaces

IFS=" " read -r -a array <<< "$(mycommand)"

The shellcheck page will give you the rationale why this is considered best practice.

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