grep output into array

Question

Guys How can I make this work

`find /xyz/abc/music/ |grep def`

I don\'t want to store the array in any temporary variable. How can w

Answer 1

If you just need the first element (or rather line), you can use head:

`find /xyz/abc/music/ |grep def | head -n 1`

If you need access to arbitrary elements, you can store the array first, and then retrieve the element:

arr=(`find /xyz/abc/music/ |grep def`)
echo ${arr[n]}

but this will not put each line of grep output into a separate element of an array.

If you care for whole lines instead of words, you can use head and tail for this task, like so:

`find /xyz/abc/music/ |grep def | head -n line_number | tail -n 1`