Create files inside folders with spaces in name with bash script

Question

I'm trying to create new folders with md files inside, and md files should have some text prepared inside. Problem is when folders have spaces in names. I have tried many different combinations with @, brackets and quotes but nothing worked.

This is current code:

#!/bin/bash

mkdir {folder1,folder2,'another folder'}

for f in $(ls -d -- */); do echo "---
tags: tag1, tag2
---" >> "$f"/mdfile.md; done

Answer 1

There's no need to use ls there, or ever in a loop. The output of ls is exclusively for looking at.

#!/bin/bash

mkdir folder1 folder2 'another folder' 

for f in */; do
    cat >>"$f"/mdfile.md <<END
---
tags: tag1, tag2
---
END
done

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