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How about this

Code:

for i in 1 2 3 4
do
   read -p "Enter line $i: " line[$i]
done
 
for i in 1 2 3 4
do
   echo "Line $i was: " ${line[i]}
done

Depending on your shell you may be able to use {1..4} in place of 1 2 3 4

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