如何用空行将文本文件拆分为数组？

Question

I have a bash command that outputs text in the following format:

Header 1
- Point 1
- Point 2

Header 2
- Point 1
- Point 2

Header 3
-Point 1
- Point 2

...

I want to parse this text into an array, separating on the empty line so that array[0] for example contains:

Header 1
- Point 1
- Point 2

And then I want to edit some of the data in the array if it satisfies certain conditions.

I was looking at something like this Separate by blank lines in bash but I'm completely new to bash so I don't understand how to save the output from awk RS=null to an array instead of printing it out. Could someone please point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

You can use readarray command to populate a bash array after reading your file with gnu awk command with empty RS that lets awk split records on empty lines and using ORS as \\0 (NUL) byte:

IFS= readarray -d '' arr < <(awk -v RS= -v ORS='\0' '1' file)

Check output:

echo "${arr[0]}"
Header 1
- Point 1
- Point 2

echo "${arr[1]}"
Header 2
- Point 1
- Point 2

echo "${arr[2]}"
Header 3
-Point 1
- Point 2

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