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That's two problems that you can't solve with one generic approach. For your special setup above, try while IFS= read -r FILENAME; do echo "$FILENAME"; ls -d1...

You can set IFS="" for the entire loop, then it works for the read and the ls
(
IFS=
while read -r FILENAME; do ls -d1 $FILENAME; done < ~/files.lst
)
# subshell ended. The original IFS is...

Here's an example using an old disk image I happened to have around:

$ /sbin/fdisk -ul gorgon-aug-7.img
You must set cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.

Disk...

Try:
eval v=\${$x}
echo "$v"

find /path/to/files -not -user myname -print -exec chown myname "{}" +

Try to quote the variables:


FS_ROOT=/home/sysadmin/t
FS_EXCLUDE=( \( -path "$FS_ROOT/dev" -o -path "$FS_ROOT/.*" \) -prune -o )
find "$FS_ROOT" "${FS_EXCLUDE[@]}" -type d -not -perm 2770 -exec...

'$3' does not allow the shell to expand the variable use double quotes