On 7-7-13 11:29:05 Mike Wright wrote:
> I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios
> but am having trouble with filenames that contain spaces.
>
> ls *flv
>
> returns this:
>
> Jorge Drexler - Al otro Lado del Río.flv
>
> But in a bash for loop it doesn't work.
>
> for f in `ls *flv`; do echo $f; done
>
> returns this:
>
> Jorge
> Drexler
> -
> Al
> otro
> Lado
> del
> Río.flv
Use another shell?
zsh does this:
garry@vfr$ touch foo\ bar
garry@vfr$ for f in `ls foo*`;do echo $f;done
foo bar
garry@vfr$
In contrast, bash does:
garry@vfr$ bash
%n@%m$ for f in `ls foo*`;do echo $f;done
foo
bar
%n@%m$ exit
On 7-7-13 20:38:30 Ian Malone wrote:
> As you've discovered, spaces in machineable filenames aren't great.
> However for this case you may want to consider:
> for F in *flv ; do echo "$F" ; done
This is probably the best solution offered, though.
--
Garry T. Williams
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