On 01/16/2019, at 08:56, Dave <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I have a correction to make. I don't think there's actually any way to escape 
> the spaces or quote the folder names in list like this, so if you need to use 
> folder names with spaces (something I avoid, btw) what you need to do is to 
> remove the space charater from the $IFS environment variable, e.g.


Hey Dave,

Something like this will work:

oldIFS=$IFS; IFS=$'\n'; mkdir `cat ~/Downloads/test.txt`; IFS=$oldIFS

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Take Care,
Chris

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