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

For me, this worked fine on cygwin:

declare -a names=$(echo "("; find   -printf '"%p" '; echo ")")
for nm in "${names[@]}"
do
    echo "$nm"
done

This works with spaces, but not with double quotes (") in the directory names (which aren't allowed in a Windows environment anyway).

Beware the space in the -printf option.