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

Since you aren't doing any other type of filtering with find, you can use the following as of bash 4.0:

shopt -s globstar
getlist() {
    for f in **/foo*
    do
        echo "File found: $f"
        # do something useful
    done
}

The **/ will match zero or more directories, so the full pattern will match foo* in the current directory or any subdirectories.