On 07May2006 16:35, Filippos Klironomos <presariod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | | On 5/7/06, Dave Mitchell <davem@xxxxxxxxx <"mailto:davem@xxxxxxxxx";> > wrote: | | On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 04:09:41PM -0700, Filippos Klironomos wrote: | > Hello list, | > | > I'm trying to parse a list of videos I have to convert them to a | different | > format. The video names | > have spaces in them so I do something like: | > | > for file in *.flv ; do ffmpeg -i \"${file}\" \"${file}.avi\" ; done | > | > but the quotmarks do not work and ffmpeg is not fed the whole video | name but | > only the | > part up to the first space so it fails. | | Don't escape the quotes. ie you just need | | for file in *.flv ; do ffmpeg -i "$file" "$file.avi" ; done | | Same problem! | That's why I added the quotes to begin with but somehow BASH keeps ignoring | them :-( Then it sounds to me like ffmpeg is stuffing things up. The for loop quoted above is perfectly correct, suggesting that ffmpeg is mangling the string internally somehow. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Of coarse (sic!) it possible to teleport a body so that the "soul" gets left behind. They are called "honkies", man. - Dr Savory, sav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, in sci.physics
