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    Note that your sed approach will fail if any file names contain newlines. Commented Apr 16, 2021 at 12:45
  • @terdon Yes. But have you ever seen newline in file names in real life? Commented Apr 16, 2021 at 12:58
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    Yes, of course. Many times. Usually because of a bug somewhere, but not always. More importantly, such files can be trivially created (e.g. touch foo$'\n'bar) so we should make sure we can deal with them. Commented Apr 16, 2021 at 13:00
  • @RalfFriedl, of nothing else, we see them every time we test the answers we write here on the site :D Commented Apr 16, 2021 at 14:06
  • @RalfFriedl, but, a world where such effed-up filenames were not possible would indeed be a nicer one. We just need to convince every Unix-like system to add some limitations. Or at least convince them to read dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html Commented Apr 16, 2021 at 14:37