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

Actually, Mark's suggestion works fine without even doing anything to the internal field separator. The problem is running ls in a subshell, whether by backticks or $( ) causes the for loop to be unable to distinguish between spaces in names. Simply using

for f in *

instead of the ls solves the problem.

#!/bin/bash
for f in *
do
 echo "$f"
done