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Old 02-15-2011
Moving files that contain spaces...

I have a script that I've written and it's been running fine until someone dropped a file in the source directory that had spaces in it. The script breaks the file name into separate mv commands. I've tried putting " around the $FILE but that didn't help. Anyone who can help me would be greatly appreciated.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
DATEFOLDER=`date +%m%d%y`
SOURCE=/opt/Lotus/restores/
DESTINATION=/tpcdcatap01h/app1/restores/$DATEFOLDER
mkdir $DESTINATION
chmod 7777 $DESTINATION
for FILE in `ls $SOURCE|grep -i .nsf$`;do
mv $SOURCE$FILE $DESTINATION
done
for FILE in `ls $DESTINATION/|grep -i .nsf$`;do
chown tpcdap1h $DESTINATION/$FILE
done

 

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PCP(1)							   http://synce.sourceforge.net/						    PCP(1)

NAME
pcp - copy files SYNOPSIS
pcp [-d LEVEL] [-p DEVNAME] [-h] [:]SOURCE [[:]DESTINATION] DESCRIPTION
pcp copies a file on a device connected through SynCE or between a device connected through SynCE and host PC. Forward slashes ('/') in remote file names specified on the command line are converted to backward slashes (''). This tool must be run as the same user as the dccmd daemon. OPTIONS
-r Copy directories recursively. -d LEVEL Set debug log level: 0 - No logging (default) 1 - Errors only 2 - Errors and warnings 3 - Everything -p DEVNAME Use the device with the given name, instead of the default. -h Display help message. [:]SOURCE Full path to the source filename. When the filename is prefixed with a colon (':'), it will be treated as a remote filename, other- wise as a local filename. [:]DESTINATION Full path to the destination filename. When the filename is prefixed with a colon (':'), it will be treated as a remote filename, otherwise as a local filename. If this parameter is omitted and the source filename is local, the local file will be copied to a file with the same name in the "My Documents" directory on the device connected through SynCE. If this parameter is omitted and the source filename is remote, the remote file will be copied to a file with the same name in the current directory. EXAMPLES
Copy a file from host computer to remote device: pcp download/game.cab ":/Temporary Files/game.cab" Copy a file from remote device to host computer: pcp ":/My Documents/snore.wav" /tmp/snore.wav Copy a file from host computer to remote device into the "My Document" folder - you can leave off the last parameter: pcp "work/mytext.txt" Copy a file from remote device to host computer into the current directory - you can leave off the last parameter: pcp ":/My Documents/snore.wav" Copy a file from one location on the remote device to another: pcp ":/My Documents/important.pwi" ":/My Documents/important.backup.pwi" AUTHOR
This manual page was written by David Eriksson <twogood@users.sourceforge.net>. SEE ALSO
synce(1) pcp(1) pls(1) prm(1) pmkdir(1) prmdir(1) The SynCE project November 2002 PCP(1)
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