bash4 read file into associative array
First thing, associative arrays are declared with -A not -a:
local -A aryAnd if you want to declare a variable on global scope, use declare outside of a function:
declare -A aryOr use -g if BASH_VERSION >= 4.2.
If your lines do have keyname=valueInfo, with readarray, you can process it like this:
readarray -t lines < "$fileName"for line in "${lines[@]}"; do key=${line%%=*} value=${line#*=} ary[$key]=$value ## Or simply ary[${line%%=*}]=${line#*=}doneUsing a while read loop can also be an option:
while IFS= read -r line; do ary[${line%%=*}]=${line#*=}done < "$fileName"Or
while IFS== read -r key value; do ary[$key]=$valuedone < "$fileName"