Bash for loops, spaces in variables

[Alphax]

Andrew Reid wrote:
> Suppose I have a bunch of files and directories, like so:
> 
> /tmp
> /tmp/My Photos
> /tmp/Your Photos
> /tmp/Her Photos
> 
> If I iterate over that list of directories, using something like:
> 
> for i in `ls /tmp/*` do
> echo $i
> done
> 
> I get a list like
> 
> My
> Photos
> Your
> Photos
> Her
> Photos
> 
> What I need is a for each item to be the complete path. Unfortunately, I
> can't alter the input (I'm using vmware-cmd -l for this task), so I need
> to do something in the script to make sure things don't get stuffed up
> by having spaces in the file names.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 

Just for fun, try "echo ${i}"...

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