How can I create an array from the first line of multiple text sources?












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I have an array of paths to files which each have several lines of text. I'd like to produce an array that is populated with the first line of each file processed like so:



# this.txt first line is [Test this]
# another.txt first line is [Test another]
paths=(
./this/path/this.txt
./another/path/another.txt
)

for i in ${paths[@]}; do
read -r line < $i
lines+=$line
done


At most I've only gotten one value in my array. I can't seem to get the array I'm looking for out of the for loop. I've tried many variations and having a hard time figuring out where I'm going wrong.










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    I have an array of paths to files which each have several lines of text. I'd like to produce an array that is populated with the first line of each file processed like so:



    # this.txt first line is [Test this]
    # another.txt first line is [Test another]
    paths=(
    ./this/path/this.txt
    ./another/path/another.txt
    )

    for i in ${paths[@]}; do
    read -r line < $i
    lines+=$line
    done


    At most I've only gotten one value in my array. I can't seem to get the array I'm looking for out of the for loop. I've tried many variations and having a hard time figuring out where I'm going wrong.










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      I have an array of paths to files which each have several lines of text. I'd like to produce an array that is populated with the first line of each file processed like so:



      # this.txt first line is [Test this]
      # another.txt first line is [Test another]
      paths=(
      ./this/path/this.txt
      ./another/path/another.txt
      )

      for i in ${paths[@]}; do
      read -r line < $i
      lines+=$line
      done


      At most I've only gotten one value in my array. I can't seem to get the array I'm looking for out of the for loop. I've tried many variations and having a hard time figuring out where I'm going wrong.










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      I have an array of paths to files which each have several lines of text. I'd like to produce an array that is populated with the first line of each file processed like so:



      # this.txt first line is [Test this]
      # another.txt first line is [Test another]
      paths=(
      ./this/path/this.txt
      ./another/path/another.txt
      )

      for i in ${paths[@]}; do
      read -r line < $i
      lines+=$line
      done


      At most I've only gotten one value in my array. I can't seem to get the array I'm looking for out of the for loop. I've tried many variations and having a hard time figuring out where I'm going wrong.







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          lines+=("$line")


          +=WORD is string concatenation (or addition). A compound assignment +=(...) appends the values to the array.



          You probably also want to quote all your variable expansions here - the line definitely needs it if the line might contain whitespace, but you could have issues elsewhere as well.






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          • Thanks, it makes sense now why in some of my attempts it looked like the result was a mix of the two lines.

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          lines+=("$line")


          +=WORD is string concatenation (or addition). A compound assignment +=(...) appends the values to the array.



          You probably also want to quote all your variable expansions here - the line definitely needs it if the line might contain whitespace, but you could have issues elsewhere as well.






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          • Thanks, it makes sense now why in some of my attempts it looked like the result was a mix of the two lines.

            – dimmech
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          You wanted



          lines+=("$line")


          +=WORD is string concatenation (or addition). A compound assignment +=(...) appends the values to the array.



          You probably also want to quote all your variable expansions here - the line definitely needs it if the line might contain whitespace, but you could have issues elsewhere as well.






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          • Thanks, it makes sense now why in some of my attempts it looked like the result was a mix of the two lines.

            – dimmech
            25 mins ago














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          You wanted



          lines+=("$line")


          +=WORD is string concatenation (or addition). A compound assignment +=(...) appends the values to the array.



          You probably also want to quote all your variable expansions here - the line definitely needs it if the line might contain whitespace, but you could have issues elsewhere as well.






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          You wanted



          lines+=("$line")


          +=WORD is string concatenation (or addition). A compound assignment +=(...) appends the values to the array.



          You probably also want to quote all your variable expansions here - the line definitely needs it if the line might contain whitespace, but you could have issues elsewhere as well.







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          • Thanks, it makes sense now why in some of my attempts it looked like the result was a mix of the two lines.

            – dimmech
            25 mins ago



















          • Thanks, it makes sense now why in some of my attempts it looked like the result was a mix of the two lines.

            – dimmech
            25 mins ago

















          Thanks, it makes sense now why in some of my attempts it looked like the result was a mix of the two lines.

          – dimmech
          25 mins ago





          Thanks, it makes sense now why in some of my attempts it looked like the result was a mix of the two lines.

          – dimmech
          25 mins ago


















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