How to use find on dirs with white spaces?

Question

Here is something strange.

mkdir -p \"1/2 3/4\"
touch 1/2\\ 3/4/file.jpg
for f in $(find . -type f -name \\*jpg); do echo \"${f}\"; done

Th

Answer 1

You can use the -print0 option along with xargs -0. For instance:

find . -type f -name \*.jpg -print0 | xargs -0 echo

This would work no matter the content of the file names (even newlines would be handled correctly).

Answer 2

See the difference between:

find . -type f -name \*.jpg -exec echo {} \;

and:

find . -type f -name \*.jpg -exec echo \"{}\" \;

Answer 3

It can be done in several ways, but I find it much better to do it this way:

find . -type f -name \*.jpg | while read i ; do echo "Procesing $i..." ; done