Question

I have a function and its first argument is the string with stored path to some directory.
This string is output of the find . -type d.

If I list all the files in the current dir, its simple

for file in *; do
  commands
done

But with the string it doesn’t treat it that way of course.

for file in "$1"; do
  commands
done  

So I thought to use ls

for file in `ls "$1"`; do
  commands
done`

But with this solution it simply can’t handle the files with space, after some
research I’ve found everywhere a recommendations to use find but I don’t get, find will
list all the files/dirs/subdirs, simply the whole tree, but I want just the stuff in the current dir.
I will be very thankful for every help.

UPDATE

I’ve tried one more thing that seems to work:

pushd "$1"
for file in *; do
    echo "$file"
done
popd 

But I would prefer some solution where I don’t have to change my working dir

Answer 1

If you only want non-dot files, the following should do the trick.

for file in "$1"/*; do
  commands
done  

More flexible is the following code.

while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' result; do
    commands
done < <( find -P "$1" -printf %p"\0" )