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To set IFS to newline, use IFS=$'\n'. This allows <tt>find</tt> output containing horizontal whitespace to be picked up and used in e.g. <tt>for</tt> loop.
To set IFS to newline, use IFS=$'\n'. This allows <tt>find</tt> output containing horizontal whitespace to be picked up and used in e.g. <tt>for</tt> loop.
* If you can use the output with <tt>xargs</tt>, then just use <tt>find</tt>'s <tt>-print0</tt> predicate and <tt>xargs</tt>'s <tt>-0</tt> option.
* If you can use the output with <tt>xargs</tt>, then just use <tt>find</tt>'s <tt>-print0</tt> predicate and <tt>xargs</tt>'s <tt>-0</tt> option.
==Redirects==
* stderr to pipe, without stdout: <tt>2>&1 >/dev/null |</tt>