Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:19:49 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: why is this script failing? Message-ID: <8763r4q5wa.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080715215024.GA82902@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:24 -0700") References: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org> <20080715073651.P1638@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080715183500.GA76088@thought.org> <20080715190224.GC21840@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080715215024.GA82902@thought.org>
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:24 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> thanks for this clarification! until yesterday, whe you mmentioned
> blanks[whitespace], as id a song title, i hadn't tought about songs
> like "Not Ready to Make Nice.ogg" e.g. I am not sure why these
> players store the song in wav format without deleting the files, but
> when my limited /tmp is full, certain aps fail mysteriously. with a
> fwdozen more line of code they could at least fail more gracefully.
For those cases, we have find(1) and xargs(1):
#!/bin/sh
find /var/tmp -name '*.wav' -exec rm '{}' \+
or
#!/bin/sh
find /var/tmp -name '*.wav' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Whitespace handling _is_ important in shell scripts, but it is also a
good idea to entirely avoid having to handle with it when we can :-)
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