How to loop through file names returned by find?

Question

x=$(find . -name \"*.txt\")
echo $x

if I run the above piece of code in Bash shell, what I get is a string containing several file names separated

Answer 1

You can put the filenames returned by find into an array like this:

array=()
while IFS=  read -r -d ''; do
    array+=("$REPLY")
done < <(find . -name '*.txt' -print0)

Now you can just loop through the array to access individual items and do whatever you want with them.

Note: It's white space safe.