Capture multiline output as array in bash [duplicate]

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Try this:

var=($(./inner.sh))

# And then test the array with:

echo ${var[0]}
echo ${var[1]}
echo ${var[2]}

Output:

first
second
third

Explanation:

  • You can make an array in bash by doing var=(first second third), for example.
  • $(./inner.sh) runs the inner.sh script, which prints out first, second, and third on separate lines. Since we don’t didn’t put double quotes around $(...), they get lumped onto the same line, but separated by spaces, so you end up with what it looks like in the previous bullet point.

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