They are not some much skipped, but the output gets printed and then overwritten, since the Carriage Return makes the the writes start from the beginning of the line...

There is no need to specify '\n' for IFS (it won't hurt either) since the newlines will be automatically stripped by the read command...

Alternative methods of specifying a CR as IFS:

Code:

CR=$(printf '\r')
while IFS=$CR read file; do
  printf "%s\n" "$file"
done < infile

or bash/ksh93/zsh:

Code:

while IFS=$'\r' read file; do
  printf "%s\n" "$file"
done  < infile

These methods only change IFS local to the read command. So IFS retains its old value and the old IFS does not need to be saved first and can remain at the default of $' \t\n'

Of course one can always remove it from the file first:

Code:

tr -d '\r' < infile |
while read file; do
  printf "%s\n" "$file"
done

or bash/ksh93/zsh:

Code:

while read file; do
  printf "%s\n" "$file"
done < <(tr -d '\r' < infile)