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copied!<p>Latest revision based on comment from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11393817/bash-read-lines-in-file-into-an-array/11393884?noredirect=1#comment56571512_11393884">BinaryZebra's comment</a> and <a href="https://gist.github.com/nhed/d36ea500986d8fb6211c" rel="noreferrer">tested here</a>. The addition of <code>command eval</code> allows for the expression to be kept in the present execution environment while the expressions before are only held for the duration of the eval.</p> <p>Use $IFS that has no spaces\tabs, just newlines/CR</p> <pre><code>$ IFS=$'\r\n' GLOBIGNORE='*' command eval 'XYZ=($(cat /etc/passwd))' $ echo "${XYZ[5]}" sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync </code></pre> <p>Also note that you may be setting the array just fine but reading it wrong - be sure to use both double-quotes <code>""</code> and braces <code>{}</code> as in the example above</p> <hr> <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p> <p>Please note the many warnings about my answer in comments about possible glob expansion, specifically <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11393817/bash-read-lines-in-file-into-an-array/11393884?noredirect=1#comment35615660_11393884">gniourf-gniourf's comments</a> about my prior attempts to work around</p> <p>With all those warnings in mind I'm still leaving this answer here (yes, bash 4 has been out for many years but I recall that some macs only 2/3 years old have pre-4 as default shell)</p> <p><strong>Other notes:</strong></p> <p>Can also follow drizzt's suggestion below and replace a forked subshell+cat with </p> <pre><code>$(</etc/passwd) </code></pre> <p>The other option I sometimes use is just set IFS into XIFS, then restore after. See also <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/11394045/652904">Sorpigal's answer</a> which does not need to bother with this</p>

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