What have you found bad about bash arrays? I have some simple usage of those (in bash) and they work fine.
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As far as I've seen, they don't provide any advantage over a string with spaces, which doesn't work well either when you've got values with spaces:
not_what_you_think=( "a b" "c" "d" )
for sneaky in ${not_what_you_think[@]}; do
echo "This is sneaky: ${sneaky}"
done
This is sneaky: a
This is sneaky: b
This is sneaky: c
This is sneaky: d
You should put some quotes where you use the array:
not_what_you_think=( "a b" "c" "d" )
for sneaky in "${not_what_you_think[@]}"; do
echo "This is sneaky: ${sneaky}"
done
This is sneaky: a b
This is sneaky: c
This is sneaky: d