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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Conduct a search or test -f over a path with spaces Post 302737327 by godfreydanials on Wednesday 28th of November 2012 07:46:42 PM
Old 11-28-2012
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.

My input file strings look like this:
Code:
/c/mp3/Bad Company/Rough Diamonds
/c/mp3/Bad Company/Burnin' Sky

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:
Code:
[ -f /c/mp3/"Bad Company"/"Rough Diamonds"/*.jpg" ]

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.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gimmix

Gimmix(1)						      General Commands Manual							 Gimmix(1)

NAME

       Gimmix - a graphical music player daemon (MPD) client

SYNOPSIS

       gimmix

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the gimmix command.

       gimmix  is  a  graphical music player daemon (MPD) client written in C using GTK+2.  It's very simple and easy to use, yet offers many fea-
       tures to make your audio experience a pleasant one.

CONFIGURATION

       Default configuration file location is $HOME/.gimmixrc.

       List of valid configuration options :

       mpd_hostname (mandatory)
	      hostname

       mpd_port (mandatory)
	      port number

       mpd_port (mandatory)
	      mpd password. Leave blank for no password

       enable_systray (mandatory)
	      Enable/Disable the system tray icon. Enable is true, Disable is false.

       enable_notification (mandatory)
	      Enable/Disable the notification tooltip. Enable is true, Disable is false.

       music_directory (mandatory)
	      The absolute path to the directory where your music is stored. This is same as the one you specified in your mpd.conf. This  setting
	      is required for the tag editor to function properly.

       play_on_add
	      If  true,  songs will automatically be played when you add them to the playlist. If false, songs will just be added to the playlist.
	      Default value is false.

       stop_on_exit
	      If true, gimmix will stop playing when user quits gimmix. If false, gimmix will not stop playing when  user  quits  gimmix.  Default
	      value is false.

       enable_search
	      If true, search mode is enabled in library browser. If false, search mode will be disabled. Default value is true.

       update_on_startup
	      If  true,  gimmix  will  update  the  mpd  database everytime on startup. If false, gimmix won't update the mpd database on startup.
	      Default value is false.

       full_view_mode
	      If true, the playlist will be expanded by default when gimmix starts. If false, gimmix will start in compact mode (This is automati-
	      cally set by gimmix, so, its not necessary to set this value always)

       window_xpos and window_ypos
	      x  and y co-ordinates representing window position of gimmix (These values are automatically set, so, its not necessary to set these
	      values)

       window_width and window_height
	      These represt the window geometry of gimmix (These values are automatically set, so, its not necessary to set these values)

       coverart_enable
	      Enable/disable amazon cover art plugin

       coverart_location
	      Amazon's server location to fetch covers from. Values : com | co.uk | jp | fr | ca | de

SEE ALSO

       Website: http://gimmix.berlios.de

AUTHOR

       Gimmix was written by Priyank Gosalia <priyankmg@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Vincent Legout <vincent@legout.info>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   July 20, 2008							 Gimmix(1)
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