Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux

 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>:

I wrote:
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If you avoid newlines in filenames, Posix shells can cope with anything else if you set “IFS=$'\n'”. >

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Sorry, no, it looks like the “$'...'” syntax for string literals is not from Posix, it’s a Bash-ism. >
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I think it’s still possible to assign a newline to $IFS, it just takes a bit more work. >

   newline="$( printf '%b.' '\n' )" && newline="${newline%?}"
 As this is a problem with the shell, I suggest Followup-To  "comp.unix.shell"