Re: [9fans] How do you deal with newlines (line feed, LF, \n) in filenames?

[sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9fans@sirjofri.de>]

Hi,

having newlines in filenames is questionable. However, needing a newline is quite common. In rc, you don't encode the newline, you just use it:

echo here is my '
' newline.

It's quite common to define it as a variable for easier use, for example:

nl='
'
echo $nl
files=`$nl{ls}
echo $files(1)

(The example is not that useful, because the standard delimiters contain a newline character.)

Instead of find, I usually use walk, but I don't really know the syntax. In these rare situations I often find myself using walk | grep instead of looking up the flags.

Good luck finding a solution that works for you.

I think there was a doscussion some time ago to add quotes to ls output for situations like these.

sirjofri

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