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FILES. depending on where and how you use it, you might get that error, possibly due to word splitting messing the result up when expanded. But you'd have to show what you're actually doing there.for f in "$FILES"looks exactly the same as in the question you linked,$FILESwill be a single string containing all the filenames, joined together.for f in $filesdoesn't split it up, like say in python? Can you give the correct wording?for f in $filesdoes wordsplit on whitespace by default (and expand globs), butfor f in "$files"doesn't. But the splitting is rife with issues, and ignores the fact that filenames can themselves contain whitespace, so it's usually best avoided. I'm not sure what Python behaviour you refer to, since something likefor i in listin Python would loop over each element of the list (without textual splitting), whilefor i in stringwould loop over each character of the string (not splitting on whitespace)