On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 11:29 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Another friend has provided me with a simple bash script that performs
> an operation on all the files of a directory. However, many of the
> file names contain spaces. How can I modify the following code to work
> on files with spaces? The directory is on a mounted FAT32 partition.
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> PWD=`pwd`
> for file in `find $PWD -name "*.mp3"`
> do
> eyeD3 --force-update --set-encoding=utf8 "$file"
> done
>
In the above construct $file gets the first part up to the delimiter
(white space) for each part it reads, so it may not have the full file
name.
I had a similar problem so I built something like this:
name=''
for i in *.mp3
do
if ["X$name" = "X" ] then
name=$i
else
name="$name $i"
fi
# the part above builds the file name from pieces.
if [ `grep mp3 "$name"` ] then
<execute command on file>
name=''
fi
# this part executes the command and resets $name
# to begin building the next file name.
done
I am not certain of the exact test I used to make sure my file name was
complete with the .mp3 ending but I think it was the grep above.
>
> I had considered converting the spaces to underscores, but that would
> upset the delicate wife/linux balance in our household.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Dotan Cohen
> http://technology-sleuth.com/technical_answer/what_is_a_firewall.html
>
