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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:00:32 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sh scripting question
Message-ID:  <24457.35680.223661.203846@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Manish Jain writes:
 
> We do not disagree here. The OP's "problem" isn't a big problem for a
> shell script, assuming we are talking about file names such as
> 
> foo bar 10-inch.txt
> 
> and not
> 
>   foo  "bar"      \      10".txt

	OP here.
	The filenames at hand were generated by "find" and - on casual
inspection - have no oddities other than the embedded spaces.
	I leave the debate on the general case to those with more time,
investment, and experience.


			Respectfully,


				Robert Huff

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