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  • Out of interest, why redefine IFS? Commented Nov 18, 2020 at 9:16
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    @Lou it's relying on field splitting of the output of find, and (1) we can't be sure IFS is what we need it to be since the user may have modified it and (2) it's for splitting only on newlines which would be friendlier to spaces in filenames. Commented Nov 18, 2020 at 10:06