Reading filenames into an array

Question

I want to get a list of files and then read the results into an array where each array element corresponds to a file name. Is this possible?

Accepted Answer

Don't use `ls`, it's not intended for this purpose. Use globbing.

```
shopt -s nullglob
array=(*)
array2=(file*)
array3=(dir/*)
```

The `nullglob` option causes the array to be empty if there are no matches.

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