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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with spaces in filename Post 302527774 by colsinc on Sunday 5th of June 2011 09:46:39 AM
Old 06-05-2011
Fixed :)

Hi Scrutinizer. Thanks for your reply, it really helped! My script is working now. I post the working script here as an example for anyone with a similar problem. I have implemented Scrutinizers suggestions and made some other changes as well.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
#
# A script to rescue data recursively using ddrescue.

srcDir=/damaged/hdd/movies/              #the source directory
desDir=/new/hdd/movies/                 #the destination directory
workDir=/new/hdd/movies/ddrescue        #location to store logs and working files

#preamble: I have already run rsync to copy files, but some failed part way through.

`rsync -rvn --size-only $srcDir* $desDir | sed "/speedup/d" | sed "/bytes\/sec/d" | sed "/sending\ incremental/d" | sed "/^$/d" > $workDir/work` #cut rsync's list to filenames only.

workLength=`wc -l < "$workDir/work"`     #Find number of files in list.  For use with incrementing.
bookmark=0                #Begin at first entry in list.

while [ $bookmark -lt $workLength ]
do
    bookmark=`expr $bookmark + 1`        #increment through the list
    currJob=`cat $workDir/work | sed -n ''$bookmark'p'`    #extract filename to work on
    FnScurrJob=`cat $workDir/work | sed -n ''$bookmark'p' | sed "s/\//--/g" | sed "s/\ /-/g"`    #creates a version of the file path suitable for use as a file name by replacing / with --
    echo "Start Rescue on " $currJob >> $workDir/runlog    

    from=$srcDir$currJob        
    to=$desDir$currJob
    log=$workDir/ddlog-$bookmark--$FnScurrJob.txt
    
    ddrescue "$from" "$to" "$log" | tee $workDir/ddoutput-$bookmark--$FnScurrJob.txt
    echo `cat $workDir/ddoutput-$bookmark--$FnScurrJob.txt | grep -B 2 Finished | grep errors` >> $workDir/runlog
done
exit

 

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