Use "$@" instead of ${*} (see Special Parameters in the manual)

for f in "$@"; do 
    echo make sure you quote your "$variables" everywhere in the loop

    # ...

There's a shorthand (and more portable) for this:

for f do ...

for f; do would also work in some shells but is not standard.

Use "$@" instead of ${*} (see Special Parameters in the manual)

for f in "$@"; do 
    echo make sure you quote your "$variables" everywhere in the loop

There's a shorthand (and more portable) for this:

for f do ...

for f; do would also work in some shells but is not standard.

Use "$@" instead of ${*} (see Special Parameters in the manual)

for f in "$@"; do 
    echo make sure you quote your "$variables" everywhere in the loop

    # ...

There's a shorthand for this:

for f; do ...

Use "$@" instead of ${*} (see Special Parameters in the manual)

for f in "$@"; do 
    echo make sure you quote your "$variables" everywhere in the loop

    # ...

There's a shorthand (and more portable) for this:

for f do ...

for f; do would also work in some shells but is not standard.