bash script issue

[William Muriithi]

Afternoon,

I have a list of files that have horrible names and it is forcing me
to improve the intelligence of a script I have been using to clean up
the system after the images have been processed. Sample names are as
below

'004378858 (152).jpg'
'004384040.jpg'
'004382728.jpg'
'004383192.jpg'
'004375871.jpg'
'004378858 (179).jpg'
'004378858 (155).jpg'
'004378858 (187).jpg'


If i run either of the below commands on the console, it list them
properly as above.

#LIST=`find /home/wmuriithi/images/   -type f | cut -d"/" -f4| sed 's@
@\\ @g' | sed 's@[(]@\\(@' | sed 's@[)]@\\)@'`
#LIST=`find /home/wmuriithi/images/   -type f | cut -d"/" -f4|sed -e
"s/.*/'&'/"`

If I run it on a loop, it breaks the file name into two if the name has a space

for f in $LIST;
  do

     mv /home/wmuriithi/images/"$f" /home/wmuriithi/archive/images/"$DATE"/
#    echo "rm $f" >> processed.list
     echo "rm $f" >> processed.list2

  done

I get this error:

mv: cannot stat `/home/wmuriithi/images/\'004378858': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/wmuriithi/images/(38).jpg\'': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/wmuriithi/images/\'004378858': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/wmuriithi/images/(53).jpg\'': No such file or directory

Now, I am curious, why do I get different behaviours above?  What's a
better way of handling such a file name?

Thanks in advance

William
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