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# 1  
Old 11-18-2009
Spaces in Lines for Variables
All,
I am driving myself crazy over this one. I have run a find command against a volume on a nas. That returns a full listing of path and file name.

This is an example of one line of output. I redirected the output of the find command to a file.

vol13/grch76/200013935/Characterizations of Plastics/Optical profiles/CP Al 1-3-2005.tif.20091111170132-2072-1292-0.ark_tagging

For each line of output I need to know the full path to the file, the file name and also take the .20091111 and beyond off the file name and use it.

I got the file name issue working and also have the full path to the file. I am trying to write a script to go through the output file, line for line and set variables to the full path and file name.

This is what I have:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

while read -r line
do
  FULLFILENAME=`echo "\"$line\"" |awk -F / '{print $NF}'`
  SHORTFILENAME=`echo "\"$FULLFILENAME\"" |cut -f 1,2 -d .`
  FULLPATHNAME=`echo "\"$line\"" |rev |cut -f2- -d/ | rev`
  echo "$FULLFILENAME"
  echo "$SHORTFILENAME"
  echo "$FULLPATHNAME"
  echo "rm "$FULLPATHNAME"/"$FULLFILENAME""  >> fixit.log 2>&1
  echo "rm "$FULLPATHNAME"/"$SHORTFILENAME"" >> fixit.log 2>&1
  #rm -f "$FULLPATHNAME"/"$FULLFILENAME" >> fixit.log @>&1
  #rm -f "$FULLPATHNAME"/"$SHORTFILENAME" >> fixit.log 2>&1
  #echo "cp -p "$FULLPATHNAME"/.snapshot/nightly.8/"$SHORTFILENAME" "$FULLPATHNAME"" >> fixit.log 2>&1
  #cp -p "$FULLPATHNAME"/.snapshot/nightly.8/"$SHORTFILENAME" "$FULLPATHNAME" >> fixit.log 2>&1
done < donw.out

The problem with this is that when I try to do the rm or copy commands the variable has some single or double quotes in it and it won't rm or copy as there is no such file or directory. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Last edited by pludi; 11-18-2009 at 01:10 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 11-18-2009
Please modify the logic to get the inode number .You can do something like..

Code:
find . -name "*" -type f -exec ls -i {} \;

and later you can remove file using inum.

Code:
find . -name "*" -inum <inodenum> -exec rm -f {} \;

# 3  
Old 11-18-2009
Still need help
The removal of the files is only one part of the issue as I need to also copy a file from .snapshot to the original location. The spaces are causing problems and I need to know if there is a different way of quoting the variables.
Thanks for the inode idea.
# 4  
Old 11-18-2009
Why don't you quote the full line ?
Code:
echo "rm $FULLPATHNAME/$FULLFILENAME"  >> fixit.log 2>&1
  echo "rm $FULLPATHNAME/$SHORTFILENAME" >> fixit.log 2>&1
  #rm -f "$FULLPATHNAME/$FULLFILENAME" >> fixit.log @>&1
  #rm -f "$FULLPATHNAME/$SHORTFILENAME" >> fixit.log 2>&1
  #echo "cp -p $FULLPATHNAME/.snapshot/nightly.8/$SHORTFILENAME $FULLPATHNAME" >> fixit.log 2>&1
  #cp -p "$FULLPATHNAME/.snapshot/nightly.8/$SHORTFILENAME" "$FULLPATHNAME" >> fixit.log 2>&1
done < donw.out

Can you give a sample of the output you get.
# 5  
Old 11-18-2009
Output
rm -f '"vol13/grch76/200013935/Characterizations of Plastics/Optical profiles/3 mil Al foil.tif.20091111170111-2072-1292-0.ark_tagging"'

This is the output from the log file. It looks like there is a single quote and a double quote around the front and back of this line. The rm -r command doesn't alert as to whether it was successful.

---------- Post updated at 02:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:37 PM ----------

I figured it out.

the variables have to be quoted as a whole such as:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

while read -r line
do
  FULLFILENAME="`basename "$line"`
  SHORTFILENAME="`echo "$FULLFILENAME" |cut -f 1,2 -d .`"
  FULLPATHNAME="`dirname "$line"`
  echo "$FULLFILENAME"
  echo "$SHORTFILENAME"
  echo "$FULLPATHNAME"
  echo "rm "$FULLPATHNAME"/"$FULLFILENAME""  >> fixit.log 2>&1
  echo "rm "$FULLPATHNAME"/"$SHORTFILENAME"" >> fixit.log 2>&1
  #rm -f "$FULLPATHNAME"/"$FULLFILENAME" >> fixit.log @>&1
  #rm -f "$FULLPATHNAME"/"$SHORTFILENAME" >> fixit.log 2>&1
  #echo "cp -p "$FULLPATHNAME"/.snapshot/nightly.8/"$SHORTFILENAME" "$FULLPATHNAME"" >> fixit.log 2>&1
  #cp -p "$FULLPATHNAME"/.snapshot/nightly.8/"$SHORTFILENAME" "$FULLPATHNAME" >> fixit.log 2>&1
done < donw.out

I didn't have the double quotes before the back tick of the variable definition.
Thanks for the responses.
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