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<div class="news_item">#276<div class="news_title">BASH for-loop split on newline

Posted by dandriff on Sunday June 29, 2008@10:43AM

 Howto: Coax a BASH shell script into splitting for-loop elements by newline instead of whitespace (whitespace is the default behaviour).
 #!/bin/bash
 
 IFS_BAK=$IFS
 IFS="
 "
 
 for f in `ls -1 .`; do
   echo "I found a file! => $f"
 done
 
 IFS=$IFS_BAK
 IFS_BAK=

This is really being posted for future reference by me, as I seem to keep forgetting that the "magic" variable name is IFS and not EOL.

Keywords: IFS, EOL, end of line, for-loop, newline, end-of-line,