I’m pretty sure that IFS does not apply to quoted strings since word splitting happens before the quote removal (see Shell Expansion).

$ ( files=$(ls); IFS=$'\n' ; for x in $files; do echo $x; done )
file a.txt
file b.txt
plainfile.txt

$ ( files=$(ls); IFS=$'\n' ; for x in "$files"; do echo $x; done )
file a.txt file b.txt plainfile.txt

For maximum pedantry, it may be worth mentioning that filenames in typical Linux file systems can contain newline characters.

Wouldn’t for i in "$LIST"; just result in a single loop iteration with $i being the entirety of $LIST?

I didn’t know about this API and it seems really cool. Will definitely try it out.

Thanks, that is very nice to hear!

Its not for everyone but I’ve been using NixOS as my desktop OS for nearly 10 years and I am honestly pretty satisfied with the experience.

Very beautiful, love gardens that incorporate trees! Putting on my list for a future visit.

Could be that Mel stands in a ring looking down while the camera is pointing up…

Caught doing 0.75 km/h in a 0.5 km/h zone.

Wow, beautiful!

I use Liberapay and have been pretty happy with it. Have found quite a few of the people and projects to which I would like to donate, but not all.