Input data to a shell script [closed]

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AFAI understand you want to use an array:

read -r -a names

Example:

read -r -a names <<< "John Marry Sanford Saunders"
echo "${names[0]}" # John
echo "${names[1]}" # Marry
echo "${names[2]}" # Sanford
echo "${names[3]}" # Saunders

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