[txutxu]

If I could need to combine a find|grep right now (this is, if the directory recursion and filters of grep by itself, weren't enough, which maybe a corner case too...) I could do it like this:

    while IFS= read -rd '' file; do
      echo "do whatever with: $file"
      grep whatever -- "$file"
    done < <(find ~/whatevers -print0)

It's like natural language if you do it daily.

Will handle not only spaces, but also

new

lines

on

file

names.

Have a nice day.

[joosters]

You miss my point. Of course, for every example I give, it's possible to build a workaround to handle the spaces. My point is, it's the very fact that you need a workaround that makes it so irritating.

[txutxu]

For me, the code I did give, is not a workaround.

It's the canonical way of do it.

Other ways, even if they are "expected to work by inexperienced occasional users"... are simply flawed a first eye view.

A workaround is to ditch shell script, as soon as you face a problem, and blame shell script, and turn to do it in a "more advanced language" that has the same or more caveats. That could be a workaround.

Delimiting file names with null bytes, in case they could be split by any of the $IFS values, is NOT a workaround, is pure logic.