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You can just do
for f in *(or other shell glob), unless you needfind's fancy search/filtering features.The shell glob isn't just simpler, but also more robust, because it works also when the filename contains a newline;
find .. | while read -rwill crap out on that. Also apparently you wantwhile IFS= read -rbecause otherwise read might trim whitespace.If you want to avoid that problem with the newline and still use find, you can use
find -execorfind -print0 .. | xargs -0, orfind -print0 .. | while IFS= read -r -d ''. I think-print0is not standard POSIX though.Doesn't that depend on the shell?
I don't think so and have never heard that, but I could be wrong.