remove spaces in filenames in find output [duplicate]

Question

I want to list the size of directories under a given root (using du -hs) . The issue is that where the directory names have spaces the du command is getting each word of the name as a whole directory name.

I tried to fix this by quoting the output through xargs but the output is the same.

#!/bin/bash

root="$1"
echo "Searching in $root"
for d in $(find $root -maxdepth 1 -type d | xargs -i echo "'{}'")
  do 
    #
    # the root directory can take a long time so let's skip it
    #
    if [ "$d" != "$root" ] 
      then
         echo "Looking at directory $d"
         echo $(du -hs "$d")
      fi
  done

Answer 1

Because of exactly the issue you describe, it is disrecommended to iterate over the output of find. Instead, you should use the -exec option if that is available to your version of find:

find "$root" -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec du -hs {} \;

To exclude the $root directory, you can add mindepth:

find "$root" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec du -hs {} \;