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How to handle filenames containing whitespace in Bash

First capture the current IFS in $SAVEIFS and then replace it with a newline instead of spaces, now do your thing and afterwards restore the IFS with $SAVEIFS.

And yes, you can not use new lines in filenames

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
for f in *
do
    echo "$f"
done
IFS=$SAVEIFS