Scripting/spaces in filenames

[mikeEd]

I'm never sure how to deal with spaces in filenames with bash scripting.

e.g. If I have a line like
for i in `find . -name '*.txt'` ...
and one of the filenames in the current directory has spaces in it, it will return an 'i' for each word in the name.

What's the correct way to deal with this?

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

Try
find . -name "*.txt" -print | while read ITEM; do
# do what you want with ITEM
done

Don't know why it works better ...