Re: Passing paths with spaces from one command to another

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:31:06PM +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> What if the second command is a function defiend in a shell script, or a 
> bash built-in command? 

I assume this is related to Mike's earlier answer of:

  find . -print0 | xargs -0 ls

You can use a while read loop:

  find . -print0 | while read -r -d ''; do
    myfunc "$REPLY"
  done

If you need to set variables inside the loop and use them afterward, then
you must avoid the subshell:

  while read -r -d ''; do
    myfunc "$REPLY"
  done < <(find . -print0)

(See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/024 )

Note that if you use a variable other than REPLY in your read command,
you must also set IFS to an empty value; otherwise you lose all leading
whitespace.

Or you could load the output of find into an array (using a loop) and
then iterate over the array.  (See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/095
and http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/005 etc.)