diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 339dc65..73afaf8 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ To get a stripped, unicode string version of bash.stdout call value()::
     >>> b = bash('ls tests.py').value()
     u'tests.py'
 
+To get the results (separated by newlines) as a list::
+
+    >>> b = bash('ls . ').results()
+    ['bash.pyc', 'tests.pyc']
+
+or use the iterator directly::
+
+    >>> b = [res for res in bash('ls . ')]
+    ['bash.pyc', 'tests.pyc']
 
 Motivation
 ----------
diff --git a/bash/__init__.py b/bash/__init__.py
index d8da050..2630fba 100644
--- a/bash/__init__.py
+++ b/bash/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import re
 import sys
 from subprocess import PIPE, Popen
 SUBPROCESS_HAS_TIMEOUT = True
@@ -9,6 +10,8 @@
         # will mean you don't have access to things like timeout
         SUBPROCESS_HAS_TIMEOUT = False
 
+SPLIT_NEWLINE_REGEX = re.compile(' *\n *')
+
 
 class bash(object):
     "This is lower class because it is intended to be used as a method."
@@ -54,7 +57,17 @@ def __nonzero__(self):
     def __bool__(self):
         return bool(self.value())
 
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self.results().__iter__()
+
     def value(self):
         if self.stdout:
             return self.stdout.strip().decode(encoding='UTF-8')
         return ''
+
+    def results(self):
+        output = self.stdout.decode(encoding='UTF-8').strip() or ''
+        if output:
+            return SPLIT_NEWLINE_REGEX.split(output)
+        else:
+            return []
diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
index 41263b4..babc0de 100644
--- a/tests.py
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -66,3 +66,12 @@ def test_sync_false_does_not_wait(self):
         self.assertTrue((t2-t1).total_seconds() < 0.5)
         b.sync()
         self.assertEqual(b.stdout, b'1\n')
+
+    def test_iterate_over_results(self):
+        expecting = ['setup.py', 'tests.py']
+        b = bash('ls . | grep "\.py"')
+        results = b.results()
+        self.assertEqual(results, expecting)
+
+        iteratedResults = [result for result in b]
+        self.assertEqual(iteratedResults, expecting)