filename with space

Question

I have written a shell script which picks all the files recursively inside all the directories and prepared a report with the file last modified, size. The problem that I am fac

Answer 1

You're probably trying to use something like for file in $(command). Instead, use a while read loop or a for loop with globbing. Make sure you quote variables that contain filenamess.

#!/bin/sh
command | while read -r file
do
    something_with "$file"
done

or, in shells that support process substitution:

#!/bin/bash
while read -r file
do
    something_with "$file"
done < <(command)

If you're simply iterating over a list of files:

for file in "$dir"/*
do
    something_with "$file"
done