How can I store the “find” command results as an array in Bash

Question

I am trying to save the result from find as arrays. Here is my code:

#!/bin/bash

echo \"input : \"
read input

echo \"searching file with this          


        

Answer 1

If you are using bash 4 or later, you can replace your use of find with

shopt -s globstar nullglob
array=( **/*"$input"* )

The ** pattern enabled by globstar matches 0 or more directories, allowing the pattern to match to an arbitrary depth in the current directory. Without the nullglob option, the pattern (after parameter expansion) is treated literally, so with no matches you would have an array with a single string rather than an empty array.

Add the dotglob option to the first line as well if you want to traverse hidden directories (like .ssh) and match hidden files (like .bashrc) as well.