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Safely Handling Filenames with Newlines Using find and while read

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I want to handle filenames with newlines in a bash script rather than having find "$search_dir" -type f | while IFS= read -r file; do Perhaps something like the following would do it find "$search_dir" -type f -print0 | while read -d '' -r file; do Would I also need to include IFS= ?
Asked by Filangieri (179 rep)
Jun 8, 2025, 10:26 PM
Last activity: Jun 9, 2025, 03:21 PM