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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Variable with several values and spaces. Post 302497815 by spoovy on Friday 18th of February 2011 06:28:10 AM
Old 02-18-2011
scottn - the filtering was in order to get 'clean' album names from messy metadata. By adding quotes I thought it might make my loop process recognise one record per line rather than one per word; but it obviously did't work.

Your suggestion worked though, thanks. I didn't know exactly how/why yet, but i'll look into it!

Thanks!



Shell_life - thanks for your suggestion. I didn't follow it because I am trying to learn to shell program, and copy/pasting suggestions without understanding them at all is not much help to me, however perfect the code suggested. Thanks anyway though.

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One more question then scottn, now i've looked at the code a bit more:

This line:
Code:
mkdir "${ALBUM/Album: /}"

Obviously makes a directory called

Code:
Elvis!

based on the string

Code:
Album: Elvis!


How does it do this? I would have thought sed or awk or something would be required to edit the line in some way, but there doesn't seem to be any utility present. Is this a function of mkdir?

Also, this doesn't work when the album name has a slash in it ie

Code:
mkdir: cannot create directory `Flaming Star/Wild in the Country/Follow That Dream': No such file or directory

Any ideas how to get around this?

Thanks.
Last edited by spoovy; 02-18-2011 at 08:31 AM..
 

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gnomevfs-mkdir

gnomevfs-mkdir(1)						   User Commands						 gnomevfs-mkdir(1)

NAME

       gnomevfs-mkdir - make a new directory at a VFS location

SYNOPSIS

       gnomevfs-mkdir URI

DESCRIPTION

       gnomevfs-mkdir makes a new directory at a URI location that supports the creation of new directories.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       URI	       Specifies the location of the new directory in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Making a New Directory in the Home Directory

       example% gnomevfs-mkdir file:///home/user/newdir

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnomevfs-mkdir Executable to make a new directory at a VFS location

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-vfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnomevfs-cat(1), gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1)

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    6 Sep 2004							 gnomevfs-mkdir(1)
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