On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:07:11 -0400, Bill M <bi...@uniserve.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm piecing together a small script to remove duplicate messages from
various directories in Icedove. By default the files are stored in a
directory called 'Local Folders' - with the space - and this seems to be
creating a problem for bash. I can both cd to "Local Folders" and cd to
Local\ Folders from the command line but within the script it's a
different story. Bash refuses to recognize "Local Folders" as a
directory and breaks at the whitespace. Here's the script and the error
output. Any help appreciated.
bill
#! /bin/bash
# A script to remove duplicate messages
FILES=/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local\
Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*
# or "/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local
Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*"
for i in $FILES
do
mv "$i" ""$i".saved"
formail -D 65536 .msgid.cache -s < ""$i".saved" > "$i"
done
mv: cannot stat `/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local': No
such file or directory
./mailscript: line 10:
/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local.saved: No such file or
directory
mv: cannot stat `Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*': No such file or directory
./mailscript: line 10: Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*.saved: No such file or
directory
Bash is treating FILES as an array of
/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local and
Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*
Try this instead:
FILES = `ls '/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local
Folders/2-Personal.sbd/'` OR
FILES = `ls /home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local\
Folders/2-Personal.sbd/`
Notice the backticks around the command and the single quotes (could also
be double) around the path.
The backticks means to substitute the output of the command into $FILES.
HTH,
Mike
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