<ul><li>The author encountered unexpected behavior while searching for file names using the 'find' command in a shell script.</li><li>By default, the output of the 'find' command contained invisible null characters after each file name, causing issues in subsequent operations.</li><li>To fix the issue, the author used the 'strings' command to extract ASCII strings from the input, effectively splitting the string of file names into individual names.</li><li>For those without the 'strings' command, the author suggests using 'sed' to replace the null characters with newlines.</li></ul>

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