[ On Monday, June 17, 2002 at 08:40:50 (-0700), Ben Collver wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: This has GOT to be a bug in ksh...
>
> > $ touch "Berra äter ost" "Lisa visar rattarna"
> > $ for f in `find . -type f | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/"\1"/'` ; do echo $f ; done
> > "./Berra
> > äter
> > ost"
> > "./Lisa
> > visar
> > rattarna"
> > $
> 
> Oh yeah, I've run into this before.  I never found a fix but here is a
> slow workaround.
> 
> find . -type f | (while read f; do echo "$f"; done)

What's "slow" about it?  (it can be infinitely faster for a really large
number of files where "for f in *" will fail ;-)

Why the extra sub-shell?  (not that it will add appreciably to the
execution wallclock time if anything's being done with the file
contents)

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