I can highly recommend Greg's wiki/BASH faq: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ Now when I'm processing files with BASH, I

I can highly recommend Greg's wiki/BASH faq: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ Now when I'm processing files with BASH, I nearly always end up copying stuff from there as it just bypasses common errors such as not handling whitespace or filenames that contain line breaks.