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Array of folder names without space in bash

I'm trying to run through a list of folders that have a space in them. The folders look something like

/Volumes/SAMPLE
/Volumes/SAMPlE 1
/Volumes/SAMPLE 2

and so on. To set up the array that contains all of these folders, I have

dirlist=(`ls -d /Volumes/*${prefix}*`);

When I run something like 

for ((i = 0; i < ${#dirlist[@]}; i++))
do
    echo "${dirlist[$i]}";
done

I get the folder names, but the spaces have created separate entries:

/Volumes/SAMPLE
/Volumes/SAMPLE
1
/Volumes/SAMPLE
2
/Volumes/SAMPLE
3
/Volumes/SAMPLE
4
/Volumes/SAMPLE
5

What do I need to do for the space not to separate the array and to be included as part of the directory?

Thanks!

Solution

  • Simply don't use ls:

    dirlist=(/Volumes/*"${prefix}"*)

    Example session:

    $ cd -- "$(mktemp --directory)"
$ touch a 'foo bar' z
$ dirlist=(./*)
$ printf '%s\n' "${dirlist[@]}"
./a
./foo bar
./z