Here are a few examples of how I safely traverse filesystem contents in bash: find . -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 ./sub_script.sh find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1

Here are a few examples of how I safely traverse filesystem contents in bash: find . -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 ./sub_script.sh find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name '*some*pattern' -print0 \ | xargs -0 -n1 -I{} /usr/bin/env bash -c \ 'printf "%s" "$*"' _ {}