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In message <3BB9B0A3.2C5F3ACC@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" cleopede:
>Stijn Hoop wrote:
>> 
>> > Any way using `` won't work. for i in a "b c" d works, for instance, but
>> > there is not way that I know of that you can control the output this way
>> > using ``.
>> 
>> Yes there is: set IFS to only contain a newline beforehand. That's my local
>> hack, your way is probably better :)
>
>But if you do that, you'll get a single argument back, instead of a
>number of arguments, some of which have space in the middle, or not?

Is there any reason why the "unbreakable space" (0xa0) shouldn't be
the only kind of space character used/allowed in filenames?

Greg Shenaut

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