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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:25:15 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rc and spaces in file names
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> I tried typing a literal newline in the ifs variable and it works:
>
> term% ifs='
> ' for(i in Plan*){cp $i `{echo $i | sed 's/lan/LAN/'}}
> term% ls P*
> 'PLAN 9'
> 'PLAN B'
> 'Plan 9'
> 'Plan B'
>
> With p9p is the same.  I'll appreciate If anyone can tell me why.
>

i'm not sure which question you have.  i'll try to answer the two i see.
'\n' doesn't work because rc doesn't interpret \ except as the last character
of a line.  plan 9 ls helpfully quotes file names that might need quoting
if fed to rc.  ls -Q will get rid of the quotes. (see ls(1).)  so the file names
do not include the single quotes.  if they did, you'd see '''Plan B'''.

- erik