Thus spake Michael D. Schleif:
>
> Stephen Gran wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music
> > directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full
> > path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in
> > between directories. The best I can do so far is :
> > ls -R /home/mp3 | (read filename; while [ ! -z "$filename" ]; do echo
> > "${filename//mp3/ }" >> mp3.list; read filename; done)
> > This strips the extensions (almost all mp3's - built up from before I
> > found out about Ogg Vorbis), but I'm left with the full path and no
> > blank line between directories. I seem to think the blank line could be
> > inserted by a "if filename is a directory, then echo "$filename" >>
> > mp3.list followed by \n", but I can't quite work out how to do it. man
> > bash is giving me a headache, and I thought I'd turn to you guys and
> > gals.
> > Any thoughts?
>
> How about this?
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
> DIR=/home/mds
> for dir in `find $DIR -type d | sort`
> do
> echo $dir
> echo
> for file in `find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f | sort`
> do
> printf "\t"
> echo $file | sed 's!^.*/!!' | sed 's!\..*$!!'
> done
> echo;echo
> done
> exit 0
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
I think that you, kind sir, are the man. I thought perhaps sed was my
friend in this case, but I don't know it that well yet. Ah well, man
sed it is. Thanks again.
Steve
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