Put result of awk into an array

Question

When I run the following command on terminal,

awk /984/ $files | awk -F, \'{OFS=\",\";print $1,$4,$17}\'

where,

Answer 1

When you say:

result=($(awk /string/ $files | awk -F, '{OFS=",";print $1,$4,$17}'))

the output would be split by whitespace. Set IFS to a newline character, and you should see the desired result. Say:

IFS=$'\n' result=($(awk /string/ $files | awk -F, '{OFS=",";print $1,$4,$17}'))

instead to capture different lines of output into an array.