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"More best", change the way the list of file names was captured in the first place, so that either no splitting is required or that an otherwise unused character separates the items

Chris Davies
– Chris Davies

2021-10-22 07:39:51 +00:00
Commented Oct 22, 2021 at 7:39
Nice answer. Here's a slight variation of your best solution using perl to make the output NUL delimited (in case the filenames contain quote characters): perl -pe 's/\s+([.]{0,2}\/)/\0\1/g' test2.txt

Robin A. Meade
– Robin A. Meade

2021-10-22 08:09:53 +00:00
Commented Oct 22, 2021 at 8:09

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like so
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