Iterate over a list of files with spaces

Question

I want to iterate over a list of files. This list is the result of a find command, so I came up with:

getlist() {
  for f in $(find . -iname \"f         


        

Answer 1

There is also a very simple solution: rely on bash globbing

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ touch "stupid file1"
$ touch "stupid file2"
$ touch "stupid   file 3"
$ ls
stupid   file 3  stupid file1     stupid file2
$ for file in *; do echo "file: '${file}'"; done
file: 'stupid   file 3'
file: 'stupid file1'
file: 'stupid file2'

Note that I am not sure this behavior is the default one but I don't see any special setting in my shopt so I would go and say that it should be "safe" (tested on osx and ubuntu).