for name in `ls` and filenames with spaces

Question

next code doesnt work because of spaces in file names, How to fix?

IFS = \'\\n\'
for name in `ls `
do
    number=`echo \"$name\" | grep -o \"[0-9]\\{1,2\\}\"         


        

Answer 1

Replace

for name in `ls`

with:

ls | while read name

Notice: bash variable scoping is awful. If you change a variable inside the loop, it won't take effect outside the loop (in my version it won't, in your version it will). In this example, it doesn't matter.

Notice 2: This works for file names with spaces, but fails for some other strange but valid file names. See Charles Duffy's comment below.