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Old 07-06-2010
changing the output of ls to use quotations
Hi, this is on mac osx. Im using this to find all mp3 files in my downloads folder. I would like to then add these files to itunes

Code:
 ls -R | grep .mp3

I would then do soemthing like

Code:
 for x in `ls -R | grep .mp3`; do open -a itunes 
done

then it says the file /Users/ben/Downloads/anysong.mp3 does not exist. it says this for every mp3 in my downloads folder. I believe if the mp3 file name from ls -R | grep .mp3 were in quotes it would work. So my question is how do i make this happen?

thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 07-06-2010
Code:
for x in `ls -R | grep .mp3`
do 
   open -a itunes "$x" 
done

# 3  
Old 07-06-2010
hrrm this actually didn't work, gives the exact same error message

---------- Post updated at 02:13 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:53 AM ----------

Im not sure if this helps but it works if i change .mp3 to .jpeg and change it to open with preview
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