Re: [TriLUG] bash spaces in filenames

[Chander Ganesan]

James Tuttle wrote:
I'm need to grab a few hundred songs out of a few thousand to dump to my
wife's IPod.  I have a list of the files she selected and I wrote a
little bash script to grab them and sync them to her IPod, but it fails
on spaces in filenames.  Probably on things like ' and & and - also.
Any ideas?

#/bin/env bash

FILES="Barry White - Let's Get It On.mp3
Barry White - Shaft Theme.mp3"

for file in $FILES
  do
    if [ -e $file ]; then
      FILE_LIST="$file $FILE_LIST"
    else
      echo "$file doesn't exist"
    fi
  done

snip

  
The space thing is easy...just use a different delimiter (like a colon 
":").  For example:

IFS=":"
FILES="Barry White - Let's Get It On.mp3:Barry White - Shaft Theme.mp3"

for file in $FILES
 do
   if [ -e $file ]; then
     FILE_LIST="$file $FILE_LIST"
   else
     echo "$file doesn't exist"
   fi
 done

If you have them all in a file you can do something like this:

IFS="$"
for file in $(cat -vE mp3files); do
  if [ -e $file ]; then
    FILE_LIST="$file:$FILE_LIST"
  else
...

and then change the IFS character to a ":" for the rest...


Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
One Copley Parkway, Suite 210
Morrisville, NC  27560
Phone: 877-258-8987/919-463-0999




Thanks,
Jim
  
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