Background: I am trying to find music files that are mentioned in an xml file to organize my music playlists. I'm writing a script to pull out the filenames from the xml tag to automatically find the files.

My music lives in $musicroot, so I'm issuing find there. But I can't find the following file because of the [] characters.

find $musicroot -name "R. Kelly - Step In The Name Of Love [mp3clan.com].mp3" -type f

returns nothing, but if I escape the [] then it works.

find $musicroot -name "R. Kelly - Step In The Name Of Love [mp3clan.com].mp3" -type f

/mnt/Data/Dynamic/Multimedia/Music/Not Desi/Party/R. Kelly - Step In The Name Of Love [mp3clan.com].mp3

Note that in my script, the song file is iterated over in a loop of songs and exists in a variable $song. Not sure if that makes a difference.

I'd really like to be able to just pass in the filenames into find in my scripts without having to worry about escaping characters like this, but I can't seem to find anything on this online. Probably because it's hard to search for find as find is such a common English word.

Is this possible?