Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:00:49 +0100 From: Mathias Menzel-Nielsen <matze@matzsoft.de> To: Ronny Hippler <r11roadster@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: shell scripts and escaped charecters in file names Message-ID: <43CA8DD1.5070202@matzsoft.de> In-Reply-To: <43C9FB5A.2050506@yahoo.com> References: <43C9FB5A.2050506@yahoo.com>
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Ronny Hippler wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to get the following script to run with no success.
> - ------------------------------------
> #!/bin/csh
> foreach file (\*vol\*)
> mv $file `basename $file .par2`.PAR2
> echo $file
> end
> - ------------------------------------
> and get the following error:
> usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
> ~ mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory
>
> I know it is because of the spaces and such in the file names. I have
> tried quoting single double and also escaping them but all fails. what
> is the magic? Please cc me off list. thanks!
Hi.
Sorry, dont know the trick for csh -- but for bash there is an env,
which can be used to override word-split whitespaces:
IFS (see bash(1))
The following script should do the trick (i have tested it with some
filenames with spaces in it succesfully):
8<----8<----8<----
#!/bin/sh
IFS="
"
export IFS;
for i in *;
do
mv $i `basename $i .par2`.PAR2;
echo $i;
done;
8<----8<----8<----8<
note how IFS is set to newline
(replace the *-wildchar in the for-line with your fileset)
Hope it helps
greetings,
Mathias
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