Hi, having newlines in filenames is questionable. However, needing a newline is quite common. In rc, you don't encode the newline, you just use it:
echo here is my ' ' newline. It's quite common to define it as a variable for easier use, for example: nl=' ' echo $nl files=`$nl{ls} echo $files(1) (The example is not that useful, because the standard delimiters contain a newline character.) Instead of find, I usually use walk, but I don't really know the syntax. In these rare situations I often find myself using walk | grep instead of looking up the flags. Good luck finding a solution that works for you. I think there was a doscussion some time ago to add quotes to ls output for situations like these. sirjofri ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T11149f1f949593f5-M4a923f98af111ae0821055d2 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription