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Why isn't this working? Why are the \ \ disappearing in file: \ \&.txt?

code

#!/bin/bash
echo "in bash script $0"


ls -l '/Users/mac/exifinner/'
fileCount=$(ls -l '/Users/mac/exifinner/'   | wc -l)
let fileCount--
echo "${fileCount} files found."

count=1
echo "starting finding files"

echo "read loop"
echo "  so my first file is \"\\ \\&.txt\", but where are the two backslashes?"
find '/Users/mac/exifinner/'  -type f   -iname "*.txt"   | (
        while  read theFilePath
        do
          echo -n " ${count}: "
          echo "processing file " ${theFilePath}
          echo "               file  ${theFilePath}"
          echo ${theFilePath} | hexdump -C
          let count++
        
        done
      )

echo "leaving $0"

exit 0

results

mac $ ./groupFind#JiustRead.sh

in bash script ./groupFind#JiustRead.sh

total 0

-rw-r--r-- 1 mac staff 0 Mar 1 19:13 \ \&.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 mac staff 0 Mar 1 19:12 normal.txt

2 files found.

starting finding files

read loop

so my first file is "\ \&.txt", but where are the two backslashes?

1: processing file /Users/mac/exifinner// &.txt

file /Users/mac/exifinner// &.txt

00000000 2f 55 73 65 72 73 2f 6d 61 63 2f 65 78 69 66 69 |/Users/mac/exifi|

00000010 6e 6e 65 72 2f 2f 20 26 2e 74 78 74 0a |nner// &.txt.|

0000001d

2: processing file /Users/mac/exifinner//normal.txt

file /Users/mac/exifinner//normal.txt

00000000 2f 55 73 65 72 73 2f 6d 61 63 2f 65 78 69 66 69 |/Users/mac/exifi|

00000010 6e 6e 65 72 2f 2f 6e 6f 72 6d 61 6c 2e 74 78 74 |nner//normal.txt|

00000020 0a |.|

00000021

leaving ./groupFind#JiustRead.sh

mac $