Bash scripts and multi-word filenames

[John O'Hagan <johnohagan@iprimus.com.au>]

Hi, 

I keep running into this particular gap in my scripting, and hope someone can 
clear it up for me.  

FILES=$( ls SOMEWHERE )  #or find or grep, etc

for FILE in $FILES; do SOMETHING; done

I often find that if there are spaces in the names of anything in $FILES, the 
execution of SOMETHING occurs separately for each word in the name, producing 
unexpected results.

Quoting doesn't seem to help. Are there ways to deal with this?

Thanks,

John