Public bug reported:
This issue is found in the Bionic Beaver (Ubuntu 18) beta.
How it should work (e.g. on Xenial)
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$ read -a simon <<< $( ls -1 /usr )
$ echo ${#simon[@]}
9
$ echo ${simon[@]}
bin games include lib local sbin share src var
How it works (wrongly) on Bionic
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$ read -a simon <<< $( ls -1 /usr )
$ echo ${#simon[@]}
1
$ echo ${simon[@]}
bin
Release
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Description: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Release: 18.04
Package Version
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Installed: 4.4.18-1ubuntu1
** Affects: bash (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: array bash bionic read
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Bash read into array is not working
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