File names with spaces in BASH

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First, you don’t need ls. By using ls in backtics, you implicitly make bash parse a string into a list, which splits by whitespaces. Instead, make bash generate the list and separate it without such quirks:

Also, you need to enclose all $i usages into quotes, to make bash substitute it as a whole, not as a string split to separate words.

Here’s the script that demonstrates both ideas:

for i in *.jpg ; do 
  echo "$i";
done

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