adam000/fileToArray.bash

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How to turn a file into an array in bash (delimited by newline, if I remember correctly).

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fileToArray.bash

	#!/bin/bash
	echo "Please enter a file to be read as an array:"
	read fileName
	a=( $(cat fileName) )

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