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# 1  
Old 04-15-2013
Assign output of "ls -l" to an array
I want to assign the output of a file search (ls -l) to an array, as in the following example:
Code:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john      121 Mar 13 22:30 ma-man~
drwxr-xr-x 8 john john     4096 Jan  7 12:06 Owner
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john      929 Feb  7 09:40 partition_output~
drwxr-xr-x 8 john john     4096 Jan  7 12:06 test1
drwxr-xr-x 2 john john     4096 Mar  8 10:24 test3

I used this command:
Code:
array=(`ls -l)

However, instead of 5 elements in the array, I have 45. A space is being read as a field separator. I added the following:
Code:
IFS='\n'

to indicate a new line, but I must be missing something.
# 2  
Old 04-15-2013
Guess I read it wrong Smilie
# 3  
Old 04-15-2013
Using indexed array in KSH:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

typeset -a array

ls -l | while read line
do
        (( ++c ))
        array[$c]="$line"
done

for k in "${!array[@]}"
do
        printf "%s\n" "${array[$k]}"
done

# 4  
Old 04-15-2013
For that matter, just
Code:
ls -l | while read LINE
do
...
done

may be sufficient for many purposes without using an array at all. Far too often I see people equate "array" with "loop" when they had no need to store it all.
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