How do I capture the output from the ls or find command to store all file names in an array?

Question

Need to process files in current directory one at a time. I am looking for a way to take the output of ls or find and store the resulting value as

Answer 1

You actually don't need to use ls/find for files in current directory.

Just use a for loop:

for files in *; do 
    if [ -f "$files" ]; then
        # do something
    fi
done

And if you want to process hidden files too, you can set the relative option:

shopt -s dotglob

This last command works in bash only.