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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to handle some files with spaces in their name using "" or \ . Like "file 1" or file\ 1.
My current confusion can be expressed by the following shell script:
#!/bin/bash
touch "file 1" "file 2"
echo -n "ls: " ; ls
echo ---
for file in "file 1" "file 2" ; do
echo $file... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ralph
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have files like below, In files coming as spaces. Before transfering those files into ftp server. I want to remove the spaces and then can transfer the files into unix server.
e.g: filenames are
1) SHmail _profile001_20120908.txt
2) SHmail_profile001 _20120908.txt
3) sh... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kirankumar
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I want to list the file contents of the directory and number them. I am using la and awk to do it now,
#ls |awk '{print NR "." $1}'
1. alpha
2. beta
3. gamma
The problem I have is that some files might also have some spaces in the filenames.
#ls
alpha beta gamma ... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: grajp002
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following code:
find /usr/local/test5 -type f -mtime +30 -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $5, $6, $7, $8, $9}'
I have this as output:
14 Aug 12 00:00 /usr/local/test5/file1
14 Aug 12 00:00 /usr/local/test5/lastname,
The bolded part is where I run into trouble. The actual... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: streetfighter2
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to ftp all the sh files in the directory. Also if any of the file name
contains spaces in them, it should be converted to underscores before it is ftped. I wrote the following code below:
FILESSH=$(ls /mysh/*.sh)
--- FILESH being used here for some other task ---
echo "$FILESSH" |... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: amicon007
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I hope someone will be able to resolve this little teaser!
I am running a script
for file in `ls directory`
do
echo "$file"
...other code here....
done
this works fine unless we receive a file with a name which has a space in it
ie
"filena me"
(I know its not good... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bab00shka
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I see similar problems in past threads but so far no answers have worked for me. I am trying to write a script which parses a txt file that contains one filename per line, then finds those files on the local disk and copies them to a specified directory.
What I have:
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: naviztirf
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have files on my unix boxes that users have created with spaces.
Example: /tmp/project plan
ls -l "/tmp/project plan" works fine.
$/tmp>ls -l "/tmp/project plan"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Jan 31 12:32 /tmp/project plan
I created a file called test and put just the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: x96riley3
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to do something like that:
for $filename in `ls -1`
do
some_command $filename
done
but it doesn't work properly for file names with spaces, for...in splits at spaces. Anyway around? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rayne
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a problem with the script below
#!/bin/sh
for vo in `find -maxdepth 1 -type f -regex "^\./*$"`
do
ls -l "$vo"
some other commands
done
It works fine until `find ...` returns files with spaces. I've tryed to change IFS but haven't succeed
Any solutions? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hitori
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06-01-2010
