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    Or set a new delimiter with mapfile -d? Commented Dec 3, 2019 at 15:46
  • Huh! I didn't know about that one. Can you point to documentation concerning this, none of the article I found mentioned it. Commented Dec 3, 2019 at 15:51
  • You'll get a newline in the last position of the array though... Maybe better to read it from tr ' ' '\n' or something? Commented Dec 3, 2019 at 15:53
  • Thanks AdminBee, That does work though every thing I have read about mapfile led me to believe it would adhere to the IFS settings. Commented Dec 3, 2019 at 16:07
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    It seems the -d option was introduced in bash version 4.4 Commented Dec 3, 2019 at 17:27