I made some progress with input from this forum, thank you, but I'm down to one stick point. Consider this simpler script:
The output is
The f variable echos properly in the loop, but I just can't seem to assign it's value to any other variable.
Why not?
I have a problem with the script below
#!/bin/sh
for vo in `find -maxdepth 1 -type f -regex "^\./*$"`
do
ls -l "$vo"
some other commands
done
It works fine until `find ...` returns files with spaces. I've tryed to change IFS but haven't succeed
Any solutions? (4 Replies)
I'm trying to do something like that:
for $filename in `ls -1`
do
some_command $filename
done
but it doesn't work properly for file names with spaces, for...in splits at spaces. Anyway around? (4 Replies)
I have files on my unix boxes that users have created with spaces.
Example: /tmp/project plan
ls -l "/tmp/project plan" works fine.
$/tmp>ls -l "/tmp/project plan"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Jan 31 12:32 /tmp/project plan
I created a file called test and put just the... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I see similar problems in past threads but so far no answers have worked for me. I am trying to write a script which parses a txt file that contains one filename per line, then finds those files on the local disk and copies them to a specified directory.
What I have:
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
i am very new to UNIX, i am trying to loop thru the files in a directory.
I got the filenames into a variable using
$files=`ls`
Here $files will contain
<filename1> <filename2> <filename3>
I want to get one filename at a time and append it to some some text.
forexample, ... (1 Reply)
Hi
I hope someone will be able to resolve this little teaser!
I am running a script
for file in `ls directory`
do
echo "$file"
...other code here....
done
this works fine unless we receive a file with a name which has a space in it
ie
"filena me"
(I know its not good... (8 Replies)
I want to ftp all the sh files in the directory. Also if any of the file name
contains spaces in them, it should be converted to underscores before it is ftped. I wrote the following code below:
FILESSH=$(ls /mysh/*.sh)
--- FILESH being used here for some other task ---
echo "$FILESSH" |... (3 Replies)
I have a problem mounting images because of the spaces in the filenames. Does anyone know how to rename files by removing the spaces with the find command?
find Desktop/$dir -name "*.dmg" -print -exec ??? (4 Replies)
Hello
I've got a certain no. of files in a directory whose names I'm reading and redirecting into a temporary text file using the command below:
ls -l | grep ^- | awk '{print $9}'However, whenever the file names contain spaces the above command considers only the part of the file name up to... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to handle some files with spaces in their name using "" or \ . Like "file 1" or file\ 1.
My current confusion can be expressed by the following shell script:
#!/bin/bash
touch "file 1" "file 2"
echo -n "ls: " ; ls
echo ---
for file in "file 1" "file 2" ; do
echo $file... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ralph
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lltag_formats
lltag_formats(5) File Formats Manual lltag_formats(5)NAME
formats - Internal formats database file for lltag
DESCRIPTION
The internal format database is usually stored in /etc/lltag/formats. The user may override this file by defining a $HOME/.lltag/formats.
If this file exists, the system-wide one is ignored.
These files contain entries starting with a line such as:
[%n - %a - %t]
A title between bracket that will be displayed at runtime.
Then, the following 3 lines must be given to explain how the format is actually used to parse filenames:
type = basename
The type is either basename (to parse the last part of the path to a file) or path (to parse the directory part of the path to a
file). When actually parsing the path to target files, basename and path parsers will be assembled. All possible combination will
be tried.
regexp = %L%N%S-%S%A%S-%S%A%L
A string composed of any characters, with the following special fields:
%L for delimiter (empty by default, multiple spaces if --spaces was given)
%S for a space (or multiple spaces if --spaces was given)
%N for numbers
%A for an alphanumeric string without /
%P for any path (alphanumeric string with /)
%% for %
indices = NUMBER,ARTIST,TITLE
A list of fields to match (either given by their full name or associated letter) corresponding to each %N or %A field in the previ-
ous format. It may be AUTHOR (or a), ALBUM (A), GENRE (g), NUMBER (n), TITLE (t), DATE (d), COMMENT (c) or IGNORE (i). See also
FORMAT in the manpage of lltag for details about these fields.
SEE ALSO lltag(1)AUTHOR
Brice Goglin
NOVEMBER 2006 lltag_formats(5)