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Bash execute svn command where url contains spaces

I am new when it comes to linux and especially with bash scripts.

Basically what I want to do (in some mixed bash / pseudo code)

for entry in `svn list https://svn.xxx.../projects`
  if already checked out
  then
    svn up https://svn.xxx.../projects/$entry some/local/path
  else 
    svn co https://svn.xxx.../projects/$entry some/local/path
  fi

  ... other stuff ...
done

My problem is that, unfortunately, some of our projects contain spaces in their names. I managed to build the “records”, but when I ran the subversion command, spaces in the URL were escaped. For instance.

svn co "https://svn.xxx.../projects/$myassembly" some/local/path

becomes

svn co https://svn.xxx.../projects/Project%20With%20Space some/local/path

and could not find the url.

I would be grateful for any help in solving this problem. Thanks

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while for , . while, , done.

while read -r entry
do
  if already checked out
  then
    svn up "https://svn.xxx.../projects/$entry" some/local/path
  else 
    svn co "https://svn.xxx.../projects/$entry" some/local/path
  fi

  ... other stuff ...
done < <(svn list https://svn.xxx.../projects)
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