Hello This still affects Bionic final release version: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, bash 4.4.19(1).
Using bash's array capabilities in this way is extremely useful and being unable to use it makes bash scripting much harder work. I'm surprised such a serious issue remains unfixed some 4 months after Bionic was released! I'm sure this would be affecting all sorts of sysadmin scripts in the wild. Simon -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1760358 Title: Bash read into array is not working Status in bash package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: This issue is found in the Bionic Beaver (Ubuntu 18) beta. How it should work (e.g. on Xenial) ----------------------------------- $ read -a simon <<< $( ls -1 /usr ) $ echo ${#simon[@]} 9 $ echo ${simon[@]} bin games include lib local sbin share src var How it works (wrongly) on Bionic -------------------------------- $ read -a simon <<< $( ls -1 /usr ) $ echo ${#simon[@]} 1 $ echo ${simon[@]} bin Release ------- Description: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch) Release: 18.04 Package Version --------------- Installed: 4.4.18-1ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1760358/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
