On 5/7/06, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
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