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the latter is a kshism, copied by zsh and bash. When you use read, you need the -r option and remove the white space characters from $IFS (like IFS= read -r i) unless you need the special behaviour of read if you don't

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2013-02-10 22:16:17 +00:00
Commented Feb 10, 2013 at 22:16
But what if the filenames contain newlines?

ruakh
– ruakh

2013-02-11 00:10:59 +00:00
Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 0:10
@ruakh: that's exactly when xargs comes in handy. Last paragraph of my answer.

0xC0000022L
– 0xC0000022L

2013-02-11 13:26:54 +00:00
Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 13:26

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