Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it correctly
Sun, 2012.09.23 - 12:36 — müzso
A pretty interesting writeup. A must-read if you don't know how to handle filenames with control characters (eg. newline) in them correctly. David wrote another (even longer 
) article on how to fix the problem of handling filenames by changing standards, operating systems and/or tools.
My choice from the proposed solutions is this one:
) article on how to fix the problem of handling filenames by changing standards, operating systems and/or tools.My choice from the proposed solutions is this one:
find . -print0 | while IFS="" read -r -d "" file; do
COMMAND "$file"
done
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