Can anyone offer a suggestion as to why setting IFS='\n' causes it to use the "n" character as the field separator?

I saw another suggestion elsewhere to use a WHILE loop instead of a FOR to avoid changing IFS default.


EDIT: Setting it like this



Seems to work.

Now I'm just doing some digging to best be able to clean the names before creating files or folders from them (no slashes, colons, gt, lt, etc..) Does anyone already have a suitable script or pointer to something somewhat universal for this?