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Reading an entire file into an array

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Reading in a single step: 

IFS=$'\n' read -r -a arr < file

Reading in a loop: 

arr=()
while IFS= read -r line; do
  arr+=("$line")
done

Using mapfile or readarray (which are synonymous): 

mapfile -t arr < file
readarray -t arr < file
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Arrays:
* Arrays
* Array Assignments
* Accessing Array Elements
* Array Modification
* Array Length
* Array Iteration
* Associative Arrays
* Looping through an array
* Destroy Delete or Unset an Array
* List of initialized indexes
* Array from string
* Reading an entire file into an array
* Array insert function
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