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# 1  
Old 03-23-2008
Computer weird echo output?
Code:
#!/bin/bash

INPUT=$1
if [ "$INPUT" -lt "10" ]
then
        INPUT=0$1
        TRACKNUMBER=$INPUT
fi
TRACKNUMBER=$INPUT
echo "Track Number:" $TRACKNUMBER


if [ ! -e "split-track${TRACKNUMBER}.wav" ]
then
        echo "File Does Not Exist!: split-track"${TRACKNUMBER}".wav"
        exit 0
fi

CUEFILE="$2"

CDTITLE=`less "$CUEFILE"|grep -B10 FILE|grep TITLE|sed 's/TITLE\ "//'|sed 's/^[ \t]*//'|sed '
s/"//'`
#|sed 's/ /\\ /g'`
CDPERFORMER=`less "$CUEFILE"|grep -B10 FILE|grep PERFORMER|sed 's/PERFORMER\ "//'|sed 's/^[ \
t]*//'|sed 's/"//'`
TRACKTITLE=`less "$CUEFILE" |grep -A4 TRACK\ $TRACKNUMBER|grep TITLE|sed 's/TITLE\ "//'|sed '
s/^[ \t]*//'|sed 's/"//'`
PERFORMER=`less "$CUEFILE" |grep -A4 TRACK\ $TRACKNUMBER|grep PERFORMER|sed 's/PERFORMER\ "//
'|sed 's/^[ \t]*//'|sed 's/"//'`

echo "CD Performer: $CDPERFORMER"
echo "CD Title: $CDTITLE"
echo "Track Title: $TRACKTITLE"
echo "Track Performer: $PERFORMER"


echo $CDPERFORMER $CDTITLE
echo $TRACKNUMBER $TRACKTITLE

output:
Quote:
$ ../trackname.sh 2 Santana\ -\ Abraxas.cue
Track Number: 02
CD Performer: Santana
CD Title: Abraxas
Track Title: Black Bagic Woman - Gypsy Queen
Track Performer: Santana
Abraxas
02 Black Bagic Woman - Gypsy Queen
why doesn't the second to last "echo" command work properly?

some more oddity, if I replace the last two echo commands with:
Code:
echo "\"$CDPERFORMER\""
echo "\"$CDTITLE\""
echo "\"$TRACKNUMBER\""
echo "\"$TRACKTITLE\""

I get:
Quote:
"Santana
"Abraxas
"02"
"Black Bagic Woman - Gypsy Queen
or with:
Code:
echo "\"$CDPERFORMER\" "
echo "\"$CDTITLE\" "
echo "\"$TRACKNUMBER\" "
echo "\"$TRACKTITLE\" "

I get:
Quote:
" antana
" braxas
"02"
" lack Bagic Woman - Gypsy Queen
When all I want is an output echo (or really a variable with the following so i can use it in a mv command):
"Santana - Abraxas - 02 - Black Bagic Woman - Gypsy Queen"

anyone know what I'm doing wrong? thanks!!
# 2  
Old 03-23-2008
Have you tried something simple like:
Code:
echo "$CDPERFORMER - $CDTITLE - $TRACKNUMBER - $TRACKTITLE"

# 3  
Old 03-24-2008
Quote:
Code:
echo "\"$CDPERFORMER\" "
echo "\"$CDTITLE\" "
echo "\"$TRACKNUMBER\" "
echo "\"$TRACKTITLE\" "

I get:
This funny board software didn't even know how to quote the output, so I take that as additional indication that the problem is this: you have DOS carriage returns in the output.

I really wonder about your use of less inside a script. Does it bring some benefit over simply reading the file?

Quote:
Code:
CDPERFORMER=`less "$CUEFILE"|grep -B10 FILE|grep PERFORMER|sed 's/PERFORMER\ "//'|sed 's/^[ \
t]*//'|sed 's/"//'`

With all due respect, you should probably read up on sed scripting. grep | sed is almost always redundant, since sed is basically a grep on stereoids.

Code:
CDPERFORMER=`grep -B10 FILE "$CUEFILE" |
    tr -d '\015' |
    sed -n 's/^[ 	][ 	]*PERFORMER[ 	][ 	]*"\([^"]*\)*"/\1/p'`

... assuming that your repeated sed invocations were meant to remove any PERFORMER tag, remove any leading whitespace before it, and trim the double quotes around the value (and throwing in the removal of any DOS carriage returns as a bonus). Probably the first grep could also be avoided if you familiarize yourself with sed some more, but this is how far I get without even reading the manual page. (Granted, the real magic is in being able to write a proper regular expression for any given problem.) ... That's a tab and a space between the square brackets, by the way.
# 4  
Old 03-24-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by redhead
Have you tried something simple like:
Code:
echo "$CDPERFORMER - $CDTITLE - $TRACKNUMBER - $TRACKTITLE"

yes, sorry, forgot to show what that output, which was basically the tracknumber and the tracktitle, ie:
Quote:
02 - Black Bagic Woman - Gypsy Queen
(from memory, i believe there were some spaces before the 02, but nothing else if anything).
# 5  
Old 03-24-2008
Java
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
This funny board software didn't even know how to quote the output, so I take that as additional indication that the problem is this: you have DOS carriage returns in the output.
I'm running linux, why would I have DOS carriage returns?

Quote:
I really wonder about your use of less inside a script. Does it bring some benefit over simply reading the file?

With all due respect, you should probably read up on sed scripting. grep | sed is almost always redundant, since sed is basically a grep on stereoids.
yea, except I don't really know how to use sed outside of how I've used it.

Quote:
Code:
CDPERFORMER=`grep -B10 FILE "$CUEFILE" |
    tr -d '\015' |
    sed -n 's/^[ 	][ 	]*PERFORMER[ 	][ 	]*"\([^"]*\)*"/\1/p'`

... assuming that your repeated sed invocations were meant to remove any PERFORMER tag, remove any leading whitespace before it, and trim the double quotes around the value (and throwing in the removal of any DOS carriage returns as a bonus). Probably the first grep could also be avoided if you familiarize yourself with sed some more, but this is how far I get without even reading the manual page. (Granted, the real magic is in being able to write a proper regular expression for any given problem.) ... That's a tab and a space between the square brackets, by the way.
repeated sed was indeed to do basically all that.
yea, the first grep could probably be avoided, but I don't know how exactly.

still doesn't explain why my desired output is not working though.
of course, any help with sed would be appreciated. I've tried reading some of the online FAQ's, etc. but they all seem to assume some knowledge which I am not privy to...
# 6  
Old 03-24-2008
Did you try trimming the assumed carriage returns from the file? If something is fetching data from the Internet then the protocol is probably using carriage returns, and they might survive into your files (depending on the client which fetches them).

There's a book about awk & sed from O'Reilly, it's very old but also very much worth reading. Also most Unix intro books have a few chapters dedicated to regular expression tools in general, and grep and sed in particular, then moving on to awk. The manual page is not particularly gruesome, either, although of course it's primarily intended as a reference, not a tutorial.
# 7  
Old 03-24-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
Did you try trimming the assumed carriage returns from the file? If something is fetching data from the Internet then the protocol is probably using carriage returns, and they might survive into your files (depending on the client which fetches them).
well that was it, the original source of the information was from a dos file. I ran dos2unix on it and ran the script and it worked fine.


Quote:
Originally Posted by era
There's a book about awk & sed from O'Reilly, it's very old but also very much worth reading. Also most Unix intro books have a few chapters dedicated to regular expression tools in general, and grep and sed in particular, then moving on to awk. The manual page is not particularly gruesome, either, although of course it's primarily intended as a reference, not a tutorial.
I'll have look into it, thanks for the help!
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