#!/bin/bash directories_to_parse="../Computer_Architecture ../Databases ../Electronics_and_Hardware ../Operating_Systems ../Programming_Languages ../DevOps" directory="/home/thomas/repos/eolas-bak" mapfile -t directories < <(find "$directory" -type d) file_matches=() # Return array of all files belonging to source dirs... for ele in ${directories[@]}; do file_matches+=( $(find $ele -name "*.md" -type f) ) done echo ${file_matches[1]}