Bash prevent word splitting in array from command

Question

I am using bash to get all of my directories with find . -maxdepth 1 -type d. I am then storing it in an array called selections. The issue is if a file has a space in it then i get some issues. When i try to sort the array, even when changing the delimiter. This is the original set up I tried:

selections=( $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d) )

unset "selections[0]"; ## removes . as an option

readarray -t sorted_selections < <(IFS=$'\n'; sort <<<"${selections[*]}")
for ((i=0; i<${#sorted_selections[@]}; i++)); do
  sorted_selections[i]=${sorted_selections[i]:2}
done

Then when this failed I changing the delimiter to ./ being each result starts with ./, and then removed the code that removed the ./ from the element.

selections=( $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d) )

unset "selections[0]"; ## removes . as an option

readarray -d ./ -t sorted_selections < <(IFS=$'\n'; sort <<<"${selections[*]}")
for ((i=0; i<${#sorted_selections[@]}; i++)); do
 # sorted_selections[i]="${sorted_selections[i]:2}"
done

How can I prevent the sorting from spiting elements for example: taking "New File" to "New" "File"?

Answer 1

The solution was to use mapfile. This resolves the issue.

mapfile selections < <(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d) 
 unset "selections[0]"; ## removes . as an option
 readarray -t sorted_selections < <(IFS=$'\n'; sort <<<"${selections[*]}")
 for ((i=0; i<${#sorted_selections[@]}; i++)); do
   sorted_selections[i]=${sorted_selections[i]:2}
 done

for v in "${sorted_selections[@]}"; do if test "$v"; then var2+=("$v"); fi;
done
printf '%s\n' "${var2[@]}"

This did create some odd behavior in my bash script after implementing this but thats a different probelm.

Edit: I have found an even better soultion:

IFS=''
selections=( $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d) )
unset IFS

readarray -t sorted_selections < <(IFS=$'\n'; sort <<<"${selections[*]}")
for ((i=0; i<${#sorted_selections[@]}; i++)); do
  sorted_selections[i]=${sorted_selections[i]:2}
done

for ((c=0; c<${#sorted_selections[@]}; c++)); do
sorted_selections[c]="\033[0;34m\033[40m${sorted_selections[c]}\033[0m";
done

unset "sorted_selections[0]"; ## removes . as an option

Like mentioned in the comments there isn't really much you can do with the return/next line character. There might be a way to handle it with

eval "$(
  find . -type f -exec bash -c '
    file_array=("$@")
    declare -p file_array
  ' -s '{}' +
)"

echo "--- outside find ---"
declare -p file_array

but why mess with something that works