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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Truncate file name to 40 characters Post 302385757 by marcozd on Saturday 9th of January 2010 03:47:38 PM

01-09-2010

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Is there a way I can trouble shoot this without actually making anything happen?

And also, can I use ">& logfile.txt" to pipe the output from the script to a logfile that I can see what is happening?

Thanks again for everyone's help so far.

I am testing with just one directory in the /home/music/ directory.

It is as follows "/home/music/B-52's, The/Cosmic Thing/B-52's, The - Rock Lobster.mp3"

I tried running it and this is what I got:

mv: cannot stat `B-52\'s, The.B-52\'s, The': No such file or directory

Am I doing something wrong?

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