Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 01:34:52 -0800 From: Ultima <ultima1252@gmail.com> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Convert .flac and .ape to mp3 Message-ID: <CANJ8om7zUoLM9HCB_5rzC9uWRaPRhCNKcS4-WsXyjZOGGKwDig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180106085528.GA33117@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <20180104163421.GA15692@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180104175156.440fa0c2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180106063934.GA32231@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <CANJ8om7LJqAG%2BX0dn1JDZn1WYJtxZtX9SAK2yQU74om7-SSQRQ@mail.gmail.com> <20180106085528.GA33117@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>
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ah, yeah sorry I didn't understand the problem.
find . -iname "*.ape" -exec echo \"{}\" \;
This should be a solution.
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 12:55 AM, Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:
> Ultima wrote:
> > > So eventually I will need to write a script to process all the *.ape
> > > files, probably with bchunk. Which brings the following question. If
> > > the file and directory names have spaces in them, a simple loop like
> > > this:
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > for i in `find . -iname '*.ape'`
> > > do
> > > do_something $i
> > > done
> > >
> > > breaks on spaces.
> > >
> > > What is the sh magic to handle such filenames?
>
> > do_something "$i"
>
> Nope, these quotes make no difference, they are too late.
>
> The problem is in the "for " line, it cannot differentiate spaces _in_
> filenames and _between_ filenames. Look:
>
> $ touch "this is a long file name.ape"
> $ ~/bin/ape2mp3.sh
> + find . -iname '*.ape'
> + echo ./this
> ./this
> + echo is
> is
> + echo a
> a
> + echo long
> long
> + echo file
> file
> + echo name.ape
> name.ape
> $
>
> I'm sure the solution exists, it must be a very common case.
>
>
> --
> Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> AS43859
>
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