find . -type d | while read file; do echo $file; done

However, doesn’t work if the file-name contains newlines. The above is the only solution i know of when you actually want to have the directory name in a variable. If you just want to execute some command, use xargs.

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 echo 'The directory is: '

Sorgente: How can I escape white space in a bash loop list? – Stack Overflow

Furthermore BASH Shell: For Loop File Names With Spaces suggets:

find . -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file
do
  echo -v "$file"
done

that should handle even the weirdest file name

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