Re: easier construction of arrays

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thu 27 Mar 2014 19:15:13 Pierre Gaston wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Thu 27 Mar 2014 08:01:45 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > files=()
> > > while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
> > > 
> > >   files+=("$file")
> > > 
> > > done < <(find . -iname '*.mp3' ! -iname '*abba*' -print0)
> > 
> > i've seen this construct duplicated so many times :(.  i wish we had a
> > native
> > 
> > option for it.  maybe something like:
> >         read -A files -r -d '' < <(find . -iname '*.mp3' -print0)
> > 
> > perhaps there is another shell out there that implements something that
> > can replace that loop that bash can crib ?
> 
> An option to change the delimiter for readarray/mapfile?

thanks, i wasn't aware of that func.  that seems like the easiest solution.
-mike

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