also, watch out for spaces in the filenames. this got me before. i did something like this:

#!/bin/bash

newline='

'



OIFS=$IFS

IFS=$newline

declare -a files

files=($(find . -type f))

IFS=$OIFS



for (( i=0 ; $i<${#files[*]}; i++ )); do

  file=${files[$i]}

  echo "file $i: $file"

done

Even better:

folders.txt contents:

/home/marc

/home/marc/test1

/home/marc/test2

unset FOLDERS i

while IFS= read -r -d $'\n' folder; do

    FOLDERS[i++]="$folder"

done < folders.txt

echo "${FOLDERS[@]}"

Suggestions:

1- Don't use capital names for variables. By convention that is used for environment variables
2- Do you really need to keep the folders in an array? Why if you already have the list in a file? ;)
3- This won't deal with "newline" characters in folder names as it won't work with "does format" files either (lines don't end with a "newline" character)

About what mfillpot said:
- do *not* use cat for that!!! It's totally unnecessary and resource consuming: it's calling an external program (cat) and sending the output back to the main program. Even if it seems to work, you'd be surprised how many headaches you'll find in the future.

Regards