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# 1  
Old 05-07-2009
find & dirname:problems with white spaces in Directories
Hi all,

my problem:
(little extract from my bash-script)
I want to move each file (.mov) from one directory (and many Subdirectories) to another directory (only one);

after moving i want to create hardlinks to the old directories.

Thatīs no problem, but now:

source-directories includes (not all) white spaces (i.e. /Capture Scratch/)
I have tried:
Code:
#! /bin/sh

while true 
do if test `ls -R | wc -l` -ne 0 
	then for i in `echo $(find /Volumes/Movies/FCP -not -iname ".*" -not -iname "*-av.mov")` 
		do
				FILENAME=`basename $i`				
				PFAD=`dirname $i`
				TARGFOLDER="/Volumes/Movies/test/"
				size1=`ls -l "$i" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f5` 
          		sleep 2 
          	if test -f "$i" 
            	then size2=`ls -l "$i" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f5` 
            	if test $size1 -eq $size2 
            		then 	
	       	 		mv "$i" "$TARGFOLDER$FILENAME" 
	         		ln "$TARGFOLDER$FILENAME" "$PFAD/$FILENAME"
            	fi
            fi
   		done
   	fi
   	sleep 2
done

Thatīs ok without white spaces. basename/dirname doesnīt work with white space. My experiments with sed wasnīt successfully.
Can someone help me?
Thank you
tubian.
# 2  
Old 05-07-2009
Putting speech marks around $i as below:
Code:
FILENAME=`basename "${i}"`
PFAD=`dirname "${i}"`

should prevent the white spaces in $i causing problems.
# 3  
Old 05-08-2009
Thank you for your answer!
Iīd tried this, but no success. Smilie
"ls: /Volumes/Movies/FCP/Capture: No such file or directory
ls: /Volumes/Movies/FCP/Scratch: No such file or directory"

Do you have another solution?

Thank you,

tubian
# 4  
Old 05-08-2009
use a while read loop instead of a for loop with your find command
Code:
find ..... | while read FILE
do
 ....
done

# 5  
Old 05-09-2009
Thank you very much, your solution works very fine!

tubian
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