Re: Re: Bash different behaviour of read / strings in jessie versus stretch (regression?)

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 01:10:53AM +0100, foo fighter wrote:
> mapfile -t _array <<<"${_inputstring// /$'\n'}"

For larger inputs, this will probably be more efficient:

mapfile -t _array < <(your command | tr ' ' '\n')

Bash's substitution can be rather slow on large strings.