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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 09:10:00 +0100
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On 2024-09-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> I wrote:
>
>> If you avoid newlines in filenames, Posix shells can cope with anything
>> else if you set “IFS=$'\n'”.
>
> Sorry, no, it looks like the “$'...'” syntax for string literals is not 
> from Posix, it’s a Bash-ism.
>
> I think it’s still possible to assign a newline to $IFS, it just takes a 
> bit more work.

Perhaps using the printf utility? It is in IEEE 1003.1 (p3049 in -2008).

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Nuno Silva