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

find has an -exec argument that loops over the find results and executes an arbitrary command. For example:

find . -iname "foo*" -exec echo "File found: {}" \;

Here {} represents the found files, and wrapping it in "" allows for the resultant shell command to deal with spaces in the file name.

In many cases you can replace that last \; (which starts a new command) with a \+, which will put multiple files in the one command (not necessarily all of them at once though, see man find for more details).