Maybe you are confusing this with what happens when you do for i in `find -name '*.mp4'`; do # ... or similar. In that case, the output of `find` is indee

Maybe you are confusing this with what happens when you do for i in `find -name '*.mp4'`; do # ... or similar. In that case, the output of `find` is indeed split first, and `for` sees "foo", "bar.mp4", and so on.