Handle special characters in bash for…in loop

Question

Suppose I\'ve got a list of files

file1
\"file 1\"
file2

a for...in loop breaks it up between whitespace, not newlines:

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Answer 1

UPDATE BY OP: this answer sucks and shouldn't be on top ... @Jordan's post below should be the accepted answer.

one possible way:

ls -1 | while read x; do
   echo $x
done