> IFS=`echo -e "\012\015"`
> is the best solution I found on the web

Sad, if a cludge is the best on offer. :(

> but I'm not sure if xargs cares 
> about this.

No. Whitespace is whitespace.

> where "blah" is some sed stuff to change .bmp to .png.

You might want to use mmv:
  mmv \*.bmp #1.png

> Want to share it?

[fxargs]
Sure, been online for years:
http://volker.dnsalias.net/soft/rpm/suse9.1/scriptutils-1.25-1.noarch.rpm
There's a tar somewhere too. Understand the distro name+version as what
the rpm was made + tested on, not as a "will only work on". Bug reports
always welcome.

Volker

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