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January 21st, 2024 by

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To loop through the subdirectories in a folder, when those subdirectories may contain spaces in the file names, use the following procedure.

OLD_IFS=$IFS && IFS=$'\n'
 for directory in $HOME/somefolder/*/; do
 echo “some code here”
 done
 IFS=$OLD_IFS