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Bash: loop over files with spaces in their names

user8841203 · 1 reply · 266 viewsbash shell filenames

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Oskar Lindqvistyesterday

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Solved by Oskar Lindqvist

Do not parse ls. Let the shell glob, and quote the variable: for f in *.txt; do printf '%s\n' "$f" done For recursive search use find … -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' f; do …; done.

for f in $(ls *.txt) breaks on file names with spaces. What is the right way?

Do not parse ls. Let the shell glob, and quote the variable:

for f in *.txt; do
  printf '%s\n' "$f"
done

For recursive search use find … -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' f; do …; done.