01-23-2009
Moving filenames containing spaces
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" | while read FILE
do
echo "$FILE" | grep " " >/dev/null && {
mv "$FILE" `echo "$FILE" | sed 's/ /_/g'`; echo "Name changed";
FILE=`echo "$FILE" | sed 's/ /_/g'`;
}
-- I will FTP the $FILE here ---
done
Can the line in red be avoided without using another variable in the code. I dont know why I am asking but just want to know if it can done. Is there any other nice method of doing the above task. (The dir may contain thousands of files so dont want to perform mv on all).... Thanks.......
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
ftp_nlist
FTP_NLIST(3) 1 FTP_NLIST(3)
ftp_nlist - Returns a list of files in the given directory
SYNOPSIS
array ftp_nlist (resource $ftp_stream, string $directory)
DESCRIPTION
PARAMETERS
o $ftp_stream
- The link identifier of the FTP connection.
o $directory
- The directory to be listed. This parameter can also include arguments, eg. ftp_nlist($conn_id, "-la /your/dir"); Note that this
parameter isn't escaped so there may be some issues with filenames containing spaces and other characters.
RETURN VALUES
Returns an array of filenames from the specified directory on success or FALSE on error.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
ftp_nlist(3) example
<?php
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// get contents of the current directory
$contents = ftp_nlist($conn_id, ".");
// output $contents
var_dump($contents);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
array(3) {
[0]=>
string(11) "public_html"
[1]=>
string(10) "public_ftp"
[2]=>
string(3) "www"
SEE ALSO
ftp_rawlist(3).
PHP Documentation Group FTP_NLIST(3)