[Gllug] Re: spaces and shell scripting

[Huw Lynes]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:18, Jon Dye wrote:
> Mick Farmer wrote:
> > Dear Jon,
> > 
> > The GNU find command has a -print0 option to display file
> > names as NUL-terminated strings.  This should help.
> 
> I know, I used it in my example.  Can't work out how that helps to put 
> the filenames into a variable/array though, maybe I have to do something 
> with IFS?


IFs=$'\n'

only splits on carriage-return not tab/space.

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