Looping through find output in Bash where file name contains white spaces

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Though Dennis Williamson’s answer is absolutely correct, it creates a subshell, which will prevent you from setting any variables inside the loop. You may consider using process substitution, as so:

while IFS= read -d '' -r file; do
    grep '<image' "$file" > /dev/null && echo "$file" | tee -a embeded_images.txt
done < <(find people -name '*.svg' -print0)

The first < indicates that you’re reading from a file, and the <(find...) is replaced by a filename (usually a handle to a pipe) that returns the output from find directly. Because while reads from a file instead of a pipe, your loop can set variables that are accessible from outside the scope.

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