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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting basename + file with space Post 302394021 by methyl on Wednesday 10th of February 2010 08:40:45 AM
Old 02-10-2010
Needs quotes round the filename.
Code:
basename "/home/test/test 123.txt"

test 123.txt

 

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NAME
mongofiles - a simple GridFS interface SYNOPSIS
mongofiles [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
mongofiles is used to list, get, and insert files in the database. EXAMPLES
mongofiles list lists files in test.fs.files mongofiles put README.txt inserts the file README.txt into the collection test.fs.files mongofiles get photo.jpg retrieves photo.jpg from test.fs.files and saves it locally OPTIONS
--help show usage information -h, --host HOST mongo host to which to connect -d, --db DB database to use (default DB=test) -c, --collection COLLECTION (default COLLECTION=fs.files) collection to use --command [list|search|put|get] execute a command --file FILE filename for get or put list list all files. takes an optional filename. the file has to start with the filename search search all files for something that contains the string COPYRIGHT
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For more information, please refer to the MongoDB wiki, available at http://www.mongodb.org. AUTHOR
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