Store the output of find command in an array [duplicate]

Answer 1

This is probably not 100% foolproof, but it will probably work 99% of the time (I used the GNU utilities; the BSD utilities won't work without modifications; also, this was done using an ext4 filesystem):

declare -a BASH_ARRAY_VARIABLE=$(find   -print0 | sed -e 's/\x0$//' | awk -F'\0' 'BEGIN { printf "("; } { for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) { printf "%c"gensub(/"/, "\\\\\"", "g", $i)"%c ", 34, 34; } } END { printf ")"; }')

Then you would iterate over it like so:

for FIND_PATH in "${BASH_ARRAY_VARIABLE[@]}"; do echo "$FIND_PATH"; done

Make sure to enclose $FIND_PATH inside double-quotes when working with the path.