It looks like that the master file is blns.txt while the other files are generated from this text file (correct me if I'm wrong). So the strings are separated b

It looks like that the master file is blns.txt while the other files are generated from this text file (correct me if I'm wrong). So the strings are separated by newline characters and there is no way to escape in the strings. So a nasty string that trips up blns.txt and the tools around it would be "\n". I think this is unfortunate since strings with newlines in them could certainly trip up some bash scripts. Filenames on Linux can contain newlines for example.