>Suppose you have:
>
> allf=$(ls *.jpg)
> for f in $allf; do
> printf 'File: %s\n' "$f"
> done
>
>Now imagine that the files in $CWD are foo.jpg, bar.jpg, and silly
>filename with spaces.jpg...
>
>There is no easy way to make it more robust, unfortunately.
My limited, imperfect understanding is that in _this_ particular case,
this is safe:
for f in *.jpg
[...]
Since word splitting happens before pathname expansion.
If you need to save the results of the pathname expansion, you could do:
set -- *.jpg
And then use "$@", as that expansion is special. The downside is
that overwrites the argument list. However, I am not sure there is
an portable way of dealing with the output of a command that may
contain spaces; you can change the value of IFS to remove spaces, in
the original example you would be tripped up if a filename contains a
newline (assuming you left a newline in IFS).
--Ken
