Conduct a search or test -f over a path with spaces
I am organizing my music library on a NAS server. I want to print a list of all the directories that are missing the cover art (at least one or more jpeg file). I have successfully created a file with each line containing the path to each occurance of one or more .mp3 files. That path is also expected to have one or more files ending in .jpg or .JPG.
Most of the directory paths have one or more spaces in the directory, preventing me from testing for files with the .jpg extension, plus I have no idea how to do a case-intensive test. I will probably just have to perform two tests. I get a file not found error if I quote the entire string like:
Code:
"/c/mp3/Bad Company/Rough Diamonds"
After much searching, I decided I need to convert each path to this format"
Code:
/c/mp3/"Bad Company"/"Rough Diamonds"
If I can just get the path in the above format, I should be able to test for a jpg file with:
I have tried using the IFS="/" with the bash read and also awk with the IFS="/". Both these methods continue to use the space (and /) as an IFS and I end up with 6 fields in the case with the above path.
I am running an old version of linux, 2.6.17.14ReadyNAS, but I could do this over nfs with a modern kernel and tools. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm using the following line in bash to test whether an argument supplied is an absolute path or not:
if echo $1 | grep '^/' > /dev/null
then
absolute=1
else
absoute=0
fi
The line appears to work but seems somewhat unprofessional looking to me. Is it an acceptable... (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have a requirement.
cat /usdd/Sample/"NDDF Plus DB"/"NDDF Descriptive and Pricing"/"NDDF BASICS 3.0"/"Pricing"/1.txt |
sed 's/*|*/|/g' |
sed 's/^*//'|
sed 's/^*//;
s/*$//' > temp.txt
In unix prompt the above command is reading the file 1.txt and I am... (1 Reply)
Hi Everyone!
I'm quite new to shell scripting so this might be trivial, though 3 days of struggle and search didn't help to solve the problem:
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Hi
I have a test.dat file in UNIX which has a data.I am informatica developer i get data in those files.I need to add 50 spaces to those data in test.dat file.I am new to unix So can any one help how can i do that.
I have some 2088 rows in that test.dat file.
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I have a Bash script on Cygwin that tries to iterate through the directory entries in PATH. I need to convert the PATH value to a form that I can iterate through with "for var in $list; do".
For instance, an excerpt from my PATH value is this:
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$echo $test
/bdm/sdd/compounds/AD4833XT/requests/clin/Watson_20090420/docs/MHRA\ Comments\ \&\ Responses
$cd $test
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Hi
I am looking to search a string having spaces in a directory
for example :
my string is "summer hot"
my code :for i in `cat position__list.txt`
do
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or f in /media/cmccabe/My Book Western Digital/10_29and30_2015/*.bam ; do
bname=`basename $f`
pref=${bname%%.bam}
samtools view -H $f | sed '/^@PG/d' | samtools reheader - $f > /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/${pref}_newheader.bam
done
is the... (1 Reply)
I would like to find an undetermined number of spaces and shorten them to one space. I am running Debian in mksh. Script running in #!/bin/sh. Sorry to not include all code. The program is too big and involves an online file... too much hassle to solve a simple issue.
Ex.,
I start with... (11 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
kldconfig
KLDCONFIG(8) BSD System Manager's Manual KLDCONFIG(8)NAME
kldconfig -- display or modify the kernel module search path
SYNOPSIS
kldconfig [-dfimnUv] [-S sysctlname] [path ...]
kldconfig -r
DESCRIPTION
The kldconfig utility displays or modifies the search path used by the kernel when loading modules using the kldload(8) utility or the
kldload(2) syscall.
The following options are available:
-d Remove the specified paths from the module search path.
-f Do not display a diagnostic message if a path specified for adding is already present in the search path, or if a path specified for
removing is not present in the search path. This may be useful in startup/shutdown scripts for adding a path to a file system which
is still not mounted, or in shutdown scripts for unconditionally removing a path that may have been added during startup.
-i Add the specified paths to the beginning of the search path, not to the end. This option can only be used when adding paths.
-m Instead of replacing the module search path with the set of paths specified, ``merge'' in the new entries.
-n Do not actually change the module search path.
-r Display the current search path. This option cannot be used if any paths are also specified.
-S sysctlname
Specify the sysctl name to use instead of the default kern.module_path.
-U ``Unique-ify'' the current search path - if any of the directories is repeated one or more times, only the first occurrence remains.
This option implies -m.
-v Verbose output: display the new module search path. If the path has been changed, and the -v flag is specified more than once, the
old path is displayed as well.
FILES
/boot/kernel, /boot/modules, /modules
The default module search path used by the kernel.
EXIT STATUS
The kldconfig utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO kldload(2), kldload(8), sysctl(8)HISTORY
The kldconfig utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4.
AUTHORS
Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.org>
BSD June 15, 2001 BSD