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by npongratz 1220 days ago
If I may humbly offer a suggestion, looping over filenames should [edit: almost] never be done with ls. find can be used with much better fidelity:

https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2012

"ls is only intended for human consumption: it has a loose, non-standard format and may "clean up" filenames to make output easier to read."