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		chasil on Nov 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bash patterns I use weekly The GNU way for handling files that have inconvenient characters in their names is: `find ... -print0 \| xargs -0 ...` It makes all the problems go away.

eMSF on Nov 24, 2021 [–]

Also you can use readarray to store the found filenames in a bash array (to use with a for loop).

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