Convert a JSON array to a bash array of strings

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The problem is that jq is still just outputting lines of text; you can’t necessarily preserve each array element as a single unit. That said, as long as a newline is not a valid character in any object, you can still output each object on a separate line.

get_json_array | jq -c '.[]' | while read object; do
    api_call "$object"
done

Under that assumption, you could use the readarray command in bash 4 to build an array:

readarray -t conversations < <(get_json_array | jq -c '.[]')
for conversation in "${conversations[@]}"; do
    api_call "$conversation"
done

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