If you do not quote the white space, "$name" every reference, you need to use line feed as your delimiter, or if you have embedded linefeeds, more extreme tricks, like keying off the 'ls -l' non-name printout to pile up the right number of lines, tricky at EOF where there is no following line with an 'ls -l' prefix. C, PERL and such can handle each file name as one string without looking inside.
Code:
$ mkdir emb-ws
$ cd emb-ws
$ echo 'a space' >'a space'
$ echo 'two space' >'two space'
$ echo 'a tab' >'a tab'
$ echo 'a^Mcarriage-return' >'a^Mcarriage-return'
$ echo 'a
linefeed' >'a
linefeed'
$ ls | while read f; do echo ">$f<"; done | cat -vte
> )
>a^Itab<$
>a<$
>linefeed<$
>a^Mcarriage-return<$
>a space<$
>two space<$
$ ls -l |cat -vte
total 20$
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dpickett dpickett 6 Feb 24 15:09 a^Itab$
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dpickett dpickett 11 Feb 24 15:09 a$
linefeed$
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dpickett dpickett 18 Feb 24 15:09 a^Mcarriage-return$
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dpickett dpickett 8 Feb 24 15:09 a space$
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dpickett dpickett 11 Feb 24 15:09 two space$
$
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
echo
ECHO(1) User Commands ECHO(1)NAME
echo - display a line of text
SYNOPSIS
echo [SHORT-OPTION]... [STRING]...
echo LONG-OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
-n do not output the trailing newline
-e enable interpretation of backslash escapes
-E disable interpretation of backslash escapes (default)
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
If -e is in effect, the following sequences are recognized:
\ backslash
a alert (BEL)
backspace
c produce no further output
e escape
f form feed
new line
carriage return
horizontal tab
v vertical tab
NNN byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
xHH byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu-
mentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by Brian Fox and Chet Ramey.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report echo translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/echo>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) echo invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 ECHO(1)