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From: Cedric <cedric@belbone.be>
Subject: Re: files and directories with spaces in bash script
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:49:19 +0200
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To: karthikv@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG
Cc: Robin Doer <robin@robind.de>, Newbie List <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>

Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, at 5:52pm, Robin Doer wrote to 
> karthikv@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG:
>
>> Karthik Vishwanath schrieb:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> # set_idv3_tags.sh
>>
>> IFS=\n # Not tested!!!
>
> Tried all variants:
> IFS=\n
> IFS="\n"
> IFS='\n'
> IFS='
> '
>
>
> They don't work.
>
try this variant:
IFS=$'\n'

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