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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Variable with several values and spaces. Post 302497586 by spoovy on Thursday 17th of February 2011 03:52:21 PM
Old 02-17-2011
Variable with several values and spaces.
Hello all. I am a newb obviously and a bit stumped on this, so any help gratefully accepted.

The script is extracting metadata from individual mp3 files, then (hopefully will be) sorting them into newly-created subdirectories. I have filtered out the relevant metadata and have the album names listed in a temporary file, one entry per line, like this -

Code:
"Elvis Presley"
"Elvis Presley"
"Pot Luck with Elvis"
"Kid Galahad And Girls! Girls! Girls! (Elvis Double Features) [REMST]"

So what I am trying to do from here is create a directory for each line.
So far I have this-

Code:
#make a new subdirectory for each album
for VARIA in $ALBUMNAMES ;
do
  mkdir $2/$VARIA
done

which splits everything by individual word like this -

Code:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 (Elvis
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 And
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 Double
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 Elvis
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 Features)
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 Galahad
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 Girls!
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 Kid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 Luck
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 Pot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 Presley
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 [REMST]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  692 Feb 17 20:49 initial_output
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 20:49 with

..which is obviously not what I want. How can I get the for loop to run once for each line of input rather than once for each word?

Thanks in advance

spoov
 

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NAME

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