You want arrays:
PANTS=($(echo -e "foo\nbar\nbaz"))
echo ${PANTS[0]}
echo ${PANTS[1]}
echo ${PANTS[2]}
Spake Paul M Foster on Monday, December 22, 2008 at 09:14PM -0500:
> Here's a shell question I can't find the answer to. I have a command
> that returns a set of newline-delimited values to a single variable.
> Effectively, it looks like this:
>
> MYVAR=alfa
> bravo
> charlie
> delta
> echo
>
> I want to split those values out and into separate shell variables that
> I can use for other things. In the end, it would look like this:
>
> MYALFA=alfa
> MYBRAVO=bravo
> MYCHARLIE=charlie
> MYDELTA=delta
> MYECHO=echo
>
> I can't find any bash facility which does this. Anyone know how to do
> it?
>
> Paul
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