Copying files with spaces in the filename in a for loop
Hi all,
I've been tangoing with this one for a couple of days now and I'm still not making any progress.
Basically I'm trying to match three numbers in a string from a text file with matching numbers in a jpeg, and then copying the results to another folder.
Data looks like this: Model:
CAM-123/500
CAM-2787/600
...
CAM-1197/600
Now I've already used grep to create two lists, one of all the unique CAM numbers and one of all the matching jpeg files, and I'm able to run both of those through grep so I'm left with the filenames that I need to copy, and that's where it falls down: when I try and cp the files with spaces it splits it onto two lines.
Here's what I'm doing:
And my output is to the tune of
I've tried while loops, using printf... I'd like to know where I'm going wrong and why "$k" still outputs on to two lines... <--- Where I am
Nuts thing is, once I've got this cracked, the project is pretty much done!
Hello,
When I run following script
#!/bin/bash
cd ~/directory1
mv `ls -trF | grep -v / | tail -10 ` ~/directory2
works fine with filenames not having any space but runs into issues with filenames that have spaces tried with $file variable still doesnot work. Can someone help me (4 Replies)
Hi
I am having difficulty copying files from one dir to another due to a space in the names of the file with an extension .rtf
There are a group of files and the command am using is
cp `ls -rt /wlblive/home/whiops/ops/RTFs/*.rtf|head -20` /wlblive/home/jamshed
Since the files are... (3 Replies)
I have a text file containing files in a directory structure i.e.
/project/hr/raw/jcpdatav/datav_aug03
/project/hr/raw/jcpdatav/comb8121sep02n
/project/hr/raw/jcpdatav/datav_feb04_ons
/project/hr/raw/jcpdatav/corpsick_jun06
/project/hr/raw/jcpdatav/jcpjoiners200507... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I've a problem. Here is the code:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "enter a file name"
read a
cd /home/linux1/sam
if
then
echo "file exists"
cp $a $a_bkp
else
echo "file doesn't exist"
fi
when executed the o/p is:
enter a file name
contact
file exists
cp: missing destination file (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have files with filenames as below.
SGM Daily Sales Email-en-us-05312012.xlwa
I want to rename it in .xls. I am writing a script to change this, as there can be multiple files in subfolders.
I have the following script.
#!/bin/ksh
for oldfile in $(find... (1 Reply)
Hello
I am copying a tar from windows7 to Solaris with filezilla i could see, some characters in the name of the file get deleted.
I could see only substring of the filename
eg: original filename :abcdefghijklmnopqrstu.h
i can see like abcdefghijklm
solution to this problem is highly... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I'm trying to move/copy the files inside the loop into a directory .
I tried the below code and the issue is the data is not copying into the created directory but the files are copying into another file
file_path="/home/etc"
Last_Day=20130930
mkdir $file_path/ARC_${Last_Day}
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a list of filenames in the format with Spaces in the filename.
As an example :
Sample File 1.txt
Sample File 2.txt
Sample File 3.txt.....I have about 100 files like this.
I am trying to create a block of code or use an available command to a) Create a file b) Put in some... (2 Replies)
I have a folder with files and I have to process them in a loop. However the filenames have space characters, so the list get split.
$ touch "File Number_1"
$ touch "File Number_2"
$ ls "/tmp/File Number"_*
/tmp/File Number_1 /tmp/File Number_2
I tried following (sorry for using the... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I wrote a simple script, that basically wait for a *.dat-file in a certain folder, which is always a zipped file and extracts it.
It worked before and i changed nothing in the script, but since last week i have the problem, that it doesnt extract files containing a space. How do i make... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: blend_in
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