Shell Programming and Scripting

Originally Posted by DJ Charlie

Evening all. I'm having a terrible time with a script I've been working on for a few days now...

Say I have a text file named top10song.tm2, with the following in it:

Code:

kernkraft 400
Imagine
i kissed a girl
Thriller
animals
hallelujah
paint it black
psychosocial
Oi to the world
Zombie Zoo
song that never ends

The part of my script I'm having trouble with is as follows:

Code:

while read title
do
  title=$(echo $title | tr '[A-Z' '[a-z]')
  find /mnt/music -iname "*$title*" >> top10.lst
done < top10song.tm2

I've confirmed that every title in the top10song.tm2 list exists somewhere in /mnt/music. Running /find /mnt/music -iname "*paint it black*" from the command line returns a positive match, for example. But in the script? Nothing.

Also, is there a way to get find to stop after the first match?

Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by siquadri

Try this:
for title in $(<top10song.tm2)
do
title=$(echo $title | tr '[A-Z' '[a-z]')
find /mnt/music -iname "*$title*" >> top10.lst
done

Originally Posted by siquadri

Try this:
for title in $(<top10song.tm2)
do
title=$(echo $title | tr '[A-Z' '[a-z]')
find /mnt/music -iname "*$title*" >> top10.lst
done