read the contents of a directory using shell script
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Hi,
I'm trying to get the contents of a directory using shell script.
My script is:
for entry in `ls`; do
echo $entry
done
However, my current directory contains many files with whitespaces in their names. In that case, this script fails.
What is the correct way to loop over the contents of a directory in shell scripting?
PS: I use bash.
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