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chasil on Nov 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bash patterns I use weekly

The GNU way for handling files that have inconvenient characters in their names is:

    find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...

It makes all the problems go away.

eMSF on Nov 24, 2021 [–]

Also you can use readarray to store the found filenames in a bash array (to use with a for loop).

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