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# 1  
Old 09-15-2008
Script problem
Hi, I need help with a script.

I posted a thread about this earlier this year with the title "Processing extended ascii character file names in UNIX (BASH scipts)". This script is new and is doing the same thing. It's a little bit different so I can't use the erlier one that Robotronic helped me with. It need to be altered to function.

The script goes:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

APP_VOL=$3
echo "APP_VOL="$APP_VOL
if [ "$APP_VOL" == "/" ] ; then
	APP_FOLDER="/Applications/Finale 2009"
else
	APP_FOLDER="${APP_VOL}/Applications/Finale 2009"
fi
COMP_FOLDER="${APP_FOLDER}/Komponenfiler"

cp -R -n -p "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components/ensembles.txt" "${COMP_FOLDER}"
cp -R -n -p "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components/instrument.txt" "${COMP_FOLDER}"
cp -R -n -p "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components/MacSymbolFonts.txt" "${COMP_FOLDER}"
cp -R -n -p "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components/pagesizes.txt" "${COMP_FOLDER}"
cp -R -n -p "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components/Maestro Font Default" "${COMP_FOLDER}"
cp -R -n -p "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components/Jazz Font Default" "${COMP_FOLDER}"
rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components/"


I have to make the lines 6 and 7 like this in order to use the word "filförval"

Code:
cp -R -n -p "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components/Maestro filf\0303\0266rval" "${COMP_FOLDER}"
cp -R -n -p "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components/Jazz filf\0303\0266rval" "${COMP_FOLDER}"

I think I need a echo command here in order to get it to work. If I use the letter "o" instead of "ö" it work alright.

Can anyone help me? Robotronic?

Thank's

peli
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-21-2016 at 03:28 PM.. Reason: Change SIZE and I flags to CODE tags.
# 2  
Old 09-15-2008
The way the Mac encodes characters in a file name are different from the settings for your shell. The Mac uses something called "fully decomposed" Unicode which is different from the UTF-8 encoding you are using in the examples. If you can find the correct representation (perhaps with tab completion?) your script should work. Or as a workaround, simply use a wildcard to skip over the character you can't type (unsure whether "filf?rval" or "filf??rval" should work; depends again on the encoding I guess. "filf*rval" should certainly work, at least.)

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# 3  
Old 09-16-2008
Thank's "era" for your answer but it's not working.

This is a working script for the line with Maestro in it:
Code:
x=$(echo -e "/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Komponenter/Maestro filf\0303\0266rval")
cp -R -n -p "$x" "/Applications/Finale 2009/Komponentfiler"

I can't use "${COMP_FOLDER}" to get the folder name, just the actual folder name (Komponentfiler) to make it work.

peli
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-21-2016 at 03:30 PM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
# 4  
Old 09-17-2008
I don't think we understand each other properly. What I'm saying is try

Code:
components="/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2009/Components"  # just to make this shorter
cp -R -n -p "$components/Maestro filf"*"rval" "${COMP_FOLDER}"
cp -R -n -p "$components/Jazz filf"*"rval" "${COMP_FOLDER}"

Theoretically, the wildcard character * could match a lot of other strings, so if you have "Maestro filförfattarval" and "Maestro filfrval" in the same folder, it would copy those too. If that is a real problem for you, you could try to come up with a less general wildcard such as ?? or ? instead, but I guess you won't have to. How many ?:s to use depends on how exactly the file name is encoded. What I was trying to say is that \0303\0266 is probably converted to a display string (this is the UTF8 sequence for the character ö, represented in octal notation) which does not match how the file name is actually stored in the file system (which is probably something like 006F 0308 in hex, according to the decomposition information at Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS' (U+00F6)).

I know nothing about Mac filesystems so I may be out on a limb as far as the theoretical side goes, but the workaround should hopefully help at least.
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