I am working on a shell script that generates file names to use with bladeenc. Everything works right except that every single music file the script creates via bladeenc has a ? or question mark preceding the words of the title. Example: A Christmas disk contains a song named "Joy to the World" which comes out as a file named "?Joy to the World.mp3". I don't think there is anything wrong with bladeenc because I can manually produce "Joy to the World.mp3" with spaces and all by enclosing the name of the output file in "" or double quotations. This means my script is sneaking nulls or who knows what else in to the variable which I called $songfilename.
Isn't there something I can do in sed along the lines of sed '/[[0-9][a-z][A-Z ]]/p' to pass only blanks, letters and numbers, but filter out anything else? The example above is not quite what I need. It just passes everything so what I want is to pass only what matches the regular expression. I did make the shell script print the title with an echo $songfilename and what it printed looked perfect. If you tell the script to echo $someothervariable$songfilename you get a blank or what looks like a blank preceding $songfilename's output so there is most likely a null or other non-printing character as the first one in the variable string. If sed can be made to filter out all but alphanumerics and spaces, it should trap what ever is causing this problem. Thanks for any ideas. This is one of these things I think have solved about 5 times only to see that ?at the start of the file name. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]