May
31,
2019

Bash: working with filenames containing spaces

At times, I'd like to perform an action against all files in a directory like this:



for i in `find . -type f`

do

cp "${i}" "${i}.bak"

done


This fails when filenames contain spaces, as bash uses whitespace, tab and LF as the default delimiter. Solution? Do this:



SAVEIFS=$IFS

IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")


#bash
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