looping through `ls` results in bash shell script

Edited not to use ls where a glob would do, as @shawn-j-goff and others suggested. Just use a loop: You can replace the with or any other glob that returns a list (of files, directories, or anything for that matter), a command that generates a list, e.g., , or actually replace it with a list. Within the loop, you just refer to the loop variable with the dollar sign prefix (so in the above example). You can it or do anything else to it you want. For example, to rename all the files in the curren…