Thanks, Chris. I've always used that literal newline inside sigle quotes in 
scripts and the command-line, but people think there's something wrong when 
they see that continuation prompt. 

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 2:33:22 PM UTC-5, Christopher Stone wrote:
>
> Hey Dave,
>
> Something like this will work:
>
> oldIFS=$IFS; IFS=$'\n'; mkdir `cat ~/Downloads/test.txt`; IFS=$oldIFS
>
> --
> Take Care,
> Chris
>
>

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