a *very* odd question especially for me. Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote

[Janina Sajka]

Christopher Chaltain writes:
> I guess I'd need to see an example of how these characters trip someone up
> in a file name using a BASH script while they are handled differently in the
> DOS batch processor. With few exceptions, I find quoting literals to work
> both in a script file and on the command line.
> 


Here's the output of candidate filenames from the free cddb that tripped
abcde up on a recent rip I performed. Note that abcde errored out,
unable to complete the job in its usual way. Instead of these track
names, I have files of the form track??.flac .

So, you're proposing I can read each line from this file, enclose the
string in quotes and do a mv? Does that work for you? It doesn't for me.
If I try the very first track, I get a "no such file or directory"
error.

Retrieving 1 CDDB match...done.
---- Maurce Duruflé Organ - Aldo Ciccolini & Alexis Weissenberg Pianos - Orchestre De La Société Des Concerts Du Conservatoire - Georges Prêtre  / Saint-Saëns  Symphony No.3 Organ - Le Carnival Des Animeaux - Poulenc - Duruflé Organ - Orch Du Conservatoire - Prêtre - 1306  ----
1: Saint-Saëns  / Symphony No.3 Organ - 1. Adagio - Allegro Moderato
2: Saint-Saëns  / Symphony No.3 Organ - 2. Poco Adagio
3: Saint-Saëns  / Symphony No.3 Organ - 3. Allegro Moderato - Presto
4: Saint-Saëns  / Symphony No.3 Organ - 4. Maestoso - Allegro
5: Saint-Saëns  / Le Carnival Des Animeaux - 1. Introduction - Royal March Of The Lion
6: Saint-Saëns  / Le Carnival Des Animeaux - 2. Hens And Cocks - Wild Asses
7: Saint-Saëns  / Le Carnival Des Animeaux - 3. Tortoises - Elephant - Kangaroos
8: Saint-Saëns  / Le Carnival Des Animeaux - 4. The Aquarium
9: Saint-Saëns  / Le Carnival Des Animeaux - 5. Long Ears - Cuckoo In Woods
10: Saint-Saëns  / Le Carnival Des Animeaux - 6. The Aviary
11: Saint-Saëns  / Le Carnival Des Animeaux - 7. Pianists - Fossils
12: Saint-Saëns  / Le Carnival Des Animeaux - 8. The Swan
13: Saint-Saëns  / Le Carnival Des Animeaux - 9. Finale
14: Poulenc  / Les Animaux Modèles - 1. Early Morning
15: Poulenc  / Les Animaux Modèles - 2. The Lion In Love
16: Poulenc  / Les Animaux Modèles - 3. The Middle-Aged Man & 2 Mistresses
17: Poulenc  / Les Animaux Modèles - 4. Death And The Woodcutter
18: Poulenc  / Les Animaux Modèles - 5. The Two Cockerels
19: Poulenc  / Les Animaux Modèles - 6. The Midday Meal

Janina







> On 07/29/2015 09:11 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> >It's awkward because it often doesn't stop at spaces. It often also
> >involves commas, parenthesis, and similar reserved chars.
> >
> >Christopher Chaltain writes:
> >>How is dealing with file names with blanks in them awkward? I put those file
> >>names in quotes, just like I do in Windows and other operating systems.
> >>Maybe DOS and the old 8.3 file names didn't support spaces in them, but I
> >>would hardly consider this to be an advantage of DOS over Linux.
> >>
> >>On 07/29/2015 12:50 AM, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>You said:
> >>>for example, dealing with filenames
> >>>that contain spaces is awkward.
> >>>One of the best things about unix, is that some one else likely had the
> >>>same problem as what you are having now.
> >>>There is likely a tool written to solve exactly one's problem.
> >>>In the case of spaces in file names as well as other characters that can
> >>>cause problems, the tool is called detox.
> >>>It, for example, changes the & character into the word and.
> >>>People using GUIs invariably create those sentences for file names,
> >>>punctuation and all!
> >>>Regards, Willem
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Joel Roth wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Janina Sajka wrote:
> >>>>>I love scripting. It's fun, and it solves problems for me.
> >>>>
> >>>>There is a version of Linux, GoboLinux, with major utilities written
> >>>>as shell scripts.
> >>>>
> >>>>**And** there are some well-known limitations and
> >>>>infelicities in bash, for example, dealing with filenames
> >>>>that contain spaces is awkward.
> >>>>
> >>>>Joel
> >>>>
> >>>>>Janina
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