shell 拼接换行字符串,用换行符分割bash字符串

I found this.

And I am trying this:

x='some

thing'

y=(${x//\n/})

And I had no luck, I thought it could work with double backslash:

y=(${x//\\n/})

But it did not.

To test I am not getting what I want I am doing:

echo ${y[1]}

Getting:

some

thing

Which I want to be:

some

I want y to be an array [some, thing]. How can I do this?

解决方案

Another way:

x=$'Some\nstring'

readarray -t y <<

Or, if you don't have bash 4, the bash 3.2 equivalent:

IFS=$'\n' read -rd '' -a y <<

You can also do it the way you were initially trying to use:

y=(${x//$'\n'/ })

This, however, will not function correctly if your string already contains spaces, such as 'line 1\nline 2'. To make it work, you need to restrict the word separator before parsing it:

IFS=$'\n' y=(${x//$'\n'/ })

...and then, since you are changing the separator, you don't need to convert the \n to space anymore, so you can simplify it to:

IFS=$'\n' y=($x)

This approach will function unless $x contains a matching globbing pattern (such as "*") - in which case it will be replaced by the matched file name(s). The read/readarray methods require newer bash versions, but work in all cases.