How can i ignore a space in file name using if condition

Question

I tried:

for item in *
do 
if [ -d  ${item} ]
then 
echo "$item" 
fi
done

and when a file name with space is read it prints error:

 line 11: [: too many arguments

I want to learn to filter whitespaces in IF condition and a solution using IFS or sed will be great THANX for your answers — yosikiss, Jun 01 '19 at 07:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '19 at 07:24

Quote the expansion of $item, just like you're already doing with echo:

for item in *; do
    if [ -d "$item" ]; then
        echo "$item"
    fi
done

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