On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:40:57 -0800 "J.C. Roberts" <list-...@designtools.org> wrote:
> # The `while read VAR;do ...; done < file.txt;` construct fails when > # a backslash followed by a space is present in the input file. In > # essence it seems to be escaping the space, and thereby dropping the > # leading backslash. i.e. > # ./d\ 4/file.png > # The above is because I'm an idiot and forgot the '-r' flag for 'read' -- J.C. Roberts