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From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
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Subject: Re: Changing $IFS in a bash shell
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I solved this one on the command line:

$ IFS="
> "

This gives the result I want insofar as how item list word-splitting
works now:

$ ls
file 1  file 2  file 3  file 4
$ for dir in `find * -type f` ; do echo -n "test "; echo ${dir}; done
test file 1
test file 2
test file 3
test file 4

Now, how do I do the above in a script?  Like this?

IFS="
"

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