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'

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J.C. Roberts

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