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05-07-2009

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find & dirname:problems with white spaces in Directories

Hi all,

my problem:
(little extract from my bash-script)
I want to move each file (.mov) from one directory (and many Subdirectories) to another directory (only one);

after moving i want to create hardlinks to the old directories.

That�s no problem, but now:

source-directories includes (not all) white spaces (i.e. /Capture Scratch/)
I have tried:

Code:

#! /bin/sh

while true 
do if test `ls -R | wc -l` -ne 0 
	then for i in `echo $(find /Volumes/Movies/FCP -not -iname ".*" -not -iname "*-av.mov")` 
		do
				FILENAME=`basename $i`				
				PFAD=`dirname $i`
				TARGFOLDER="/Volumes/Movies/test/"
				size1=`ls -l "$i" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f5` 
          		sleep 2 
          	if test -f "$i" 
            	then size2=`ls -l "$i" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f5` 
            	if test $size1 -eq $size2 
            		then 	
	       	 		mv "$i" "$TARGFOLDER$FILENAME" 
	         		ln "$TARGFOLDER$FILENAME" "$PFAD/$FILENAME"
            	fi
            fi
   		done
   	fi
   	sleep 2
done

That�s ok without white spaces. basename/dirname doesn�t work with white space. My experiments with sed wasn�t successfully.
Can someone help me?
Thank you
tubian.

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basename

BASENAME(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       BASENAME(1)

NAME

     basename, dirname -- return filename or directory portion of pathname

SYNOPSIS

     basename string [suffix]
     basename [-a] [-s suffix] string [...]
     dirname string

DESCRIPTION

     The basename utility deletes any prefix ending with the last slash '/' character present in string (after first stripping trailing slashes),
     and a suffix, if given.  The suffix is not stripped if it is identical to the remaining characters in string.  The resulting filename is
     written to the standard output.  A non-existent suffix is ignored.  If -a is specified, then every argument is treated as a string as if
     basename were invoked with just one argument.  If -s is specified, then the suffix is taken as its argument, and all other arguments are
     treated as a string.

     The dirname utility deletes the filename portion, beginning with the last slash '/' character to the end of string (after first stripping
     trailing slashes), and writes the result to the standard output.

EXAMPLES

     The following line sets the shell variable FOO to /usr/bin.

	   FOO=`dirname /usr/bin/trail`

DIAGNOSTICS

     The basename and dirname utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     csh(1), sh(1)

STANDARDS

     The basename and dirname utilities are expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.

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