BASH Shell: For Loop File Names With Spaces - nixCraft

For the shell equivalent of python’s splitlines, I always did it like this: oldifs="$IFS" IFS=" " for line in $( line-with-spaces-between-fields.txt); do ... done IFS="$oldifs" or while read ... instead of for when the list exceeds $(getconf ARG_MAX) Your

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