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In bash (which is still widely used despite all its limitations as it's the GNU shell so pre-installed on virtually all GNU/Linux systems as well as a few non-GNU systems), you can do it in two steps:
In bash, you can do it in two steps:
In bash (which is still widely used despite all its limitations as it's the GNU shell so pre-installed on virtually all GNU/Linux systems as well as a few non-GNU systems), you can do it in two steps:
(- 1 because read starts filling up the array andat index 0, not 1; LC_ALL=C works around some bugssome bugs for text not encoded in the user's encoding in bash versions 5.0 to 5.2)
(- 1 because read starts filling up the array and index 0, not 1; LC_ALL=C works around some bugs for text not encoded in the user's encoding in bash versions 5.0 to 5.2)
(- 1 because read starts filling up the array at index 0, not 1; LC_ALL=C works around some bugs for text not encoded in the user's encoding in bash versions 5.0 to 5.2)
