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How to deal files with space in names?

I have a bash file as following:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
   deal_file(){
       printf $1
       printf "\t is a file"
       echo
   }
   
   main(){
       for file in `find "$1" `
      do
          deal_file $file
      done
  }
  
  main $1

then I run

Code:

./t.sh  .

,get the following results:

Code:

./     is a file
./b     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
./t.sh     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
c     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
c/b     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
c/c     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
c/a     is a file
./a     is a file
b     is a file
./c     is a file
./a.txt     is a file
./a     is a file

However the file of the current directory is

Code:

[river@localhost f]$ find ./
./
./b
./e f
./t.sh
./e f c
./e f c/b
./e f c/c
./e f c/a
./a b
./c
./a.txt
./a

so the for loop spilt the file names if containing spaces, how can I fix the bug?
Thanks!

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try while loop

Code:

 
#!/bin/sh
   deal_file(){
       printf $1
       printf "\t is a file"
       echo
   }
 
   main(){
      find "$1" | while read line;
      do
        deal_file "$line"
      done
  }
 
main $1

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