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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Spaces in filenames screwing things up... Post 302680669 by Binary Buddha on Thursday 2nd of August 2012 07:01:11 AM
Old 08-02-2012
Spaces in filenames screwing things up...
Here's the code... obviously

Code:
#!/bin/bash

SRC=$1  

function main {

        validate 
        run

}

function validate {
        if [[ -z $SRC ]]; then
                printf "You need to supply a source.\n";
                exit 1;
        elif [[ -f $SRC ]]; then
                printf "This is a file! You need to specify a directory.\n";
                exit 1;
        fi
}

function run {

        FILES=`find $SRC -type f |sed 's_ _\ _g' |  head`

        for FILE in $FILES
        do
                printf $FILE"\n";
        done
}

main

Here's the output

Code:
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/(val)Liam/Vampire_Sunrise_(Disc_1)/04_-_As_Is.mp3_CBR.mp3
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/)eib(/BC
Recordings
(BCRUK001)/Dogfight.mp3
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/)eib(/Digital
Nation/08
Infinity.MP3_CBR.mp3
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/)eib(/mix
1/05
Planet
Dust.mp3
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/)eib(/Unknown
Album/Bounce.mp3
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/)eib(/Unknown
Album/Dustball
(Dubplate).mp3
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/)eib(/Unknown
Album/eib
./sync-indus.bash: line 28: printf: -\: invalid option
printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments]
running
man.mp3
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/)eib(/Unknown
Album/eib
./sync-indus.bash: line 28: printf: -\: invalid option
printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments]
Speedball.mp3
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/)eib(/Unknown
Album/eib
./sync-indus.bash: line 28: printf: -\: invalid option
printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments]
start
the
fire.mp3
/media/Data_Bucket/Audio/)eib(/Unknown
Album/Orient
Express.mp3

As you can see, the file name break up in to separate lines due to spaces and special characters. I've tried to use sed on line 24 to replace the spaces with the escape characters. But that didn't work.

Kinda clueless at this point.
 

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PRINTF(1)							   User Commands							 PRINTF(1)

NAME

       printf - format and print data

SYNOPSIS

       printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]...
       printf OPTION

DESCRIPTION

       Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT, or execute according to OPTION:

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       FORMAT controls the output as in C printf.  Interpreted sequences are:

       "     double quote

       \     backslash

       a     alert (BEL)

            backspace

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       f     form feed

       
     new line

       
     carriage return

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       v     vertical tab

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	      Unicode character with hex value HHHHHHHH (8 digits)

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       NOTE:  your  shell  may	have its own version of printf, which usually supersedes the version described here.  Please refer to your shell's
       documentation for details about the options it supports.

AUTHOR

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