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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 00:44:39 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:27:34 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Second attempt:
> 
>     IFS='\n' ; for file in * ; do cp -p $file $file.bak ; done
> 
> but that leaves IFS set to its new value in my interactive shell.

Which in my experience is no biggie.

Next step: what if you wanted to handle newlines in file names as well?